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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Pete H. & Gordon W.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Thanks for your replies. I obviously don't
know my bilge from my belly button. I assumed that the area below the
cabin sole was also known as the bilge. As you have stated, my batteries
are located beneath the sole in the two aft compartments. The soft
material I referred to must be the same as where Gordon indicates he had a small
hole. The difference is that my hole (in the aft sole compartment) is
about 6" x 8" and a bilge pump is located in the lower compartment (I
assume that the bottom of this hole is the top of the keel). The second
compartment (forward of the first) also has the soft material but hasn't yet
been punctured. The original engine was replaced with a diesel and a new
fiberglass pan sits in the engine compartment. I have not tried to reach
forward from the aft sole compartment to see if I can reach under the engine
pan. I will give it a try this weekend since the batteries are out.
I assume the bilge extends under the engine to where the hull joins the
keel????</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT><FONT size=2>Greetings from the great
white north!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Yours</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Peter Hay Rubicon #384</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original Message-----</B><BR><B>From:
</B>Gordon E. White <<A
href="mailto:gewhite@crosslink.net">gewhite@crosslink.net</A>><BR><B>To:
</B><A href="mailto:alberg30@onelist.com">alberg30@onelist.com</A> <<A
href="mailto:alberg30@onelist.com">alberg30@onelist.com</A>><BR><B>Date:
</B>Friday, November 06, 1998 7:35 AM<BR><B>Subject: </B>[alberg30] Re:
batteries<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>Pete, <BR> My boat is # 275
and the batteries are under the cabin sole just forward of the engine
compartment bulkhead where the steps are. They are on a shelf maybe
10-12" below the sole. At first when I got the boat I thought the
bottom of the compartment was the bottom of the bilge and the top of the
keel, but I later found a small hole (into which, as always, some piece of
hardware I was working with, fell) and found there was space <U>below</U>
the battery compartment. In my boat it is open at its aft end under the
engine and forms the "lower bilge." With great contortions I can
reach into it to retrieve lost articles. Very great contortions. I think
there has to be a space there though whether it is accessible (!) on various
boats is probably different. <BR> Forward of that
compartment is another one where I also have a battery but which does not
seem to have a lower section, in fact I think the bottom of that one
<U>is</U> the top of the keel. Even further forward is a very shallow
compartment which obviously is right on top of the keel.
<BR>
- Gordon White </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>