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Re: Water in Bilge
[Re: Taras]
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06/22/12 08:35 AM
06/22/12 08:35 AM
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Rhapsody #348
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Past J/30 Class President
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Posts: 2,668
Portsmouth, RI
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Keeping dirty water in the cooler that drains to the bilge sump to maintain your cold beer? :-) Actually, it may be the hidden bilge - look where the bilge pump hose runs aft and see if there is evidence of the hose breaking down. That was a problem on Rhapsody and other J/30s as reported on this forum. Mark Rotsky (Nemesis) and I have started using a long drill to put some holes from aft of the center bilge section into the hidden bilge. I got brown slime and have used wicking material and heat to draw the moisture out when the boat is on the hard. I put corks in the holes for the sailing season. This is a temporary fix until I ultimately tear apart the hidden bilge and properly fix that area.
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Re: Water in Bilge
[Re: Taras]
#13691
06/24/12 11:22 AM
06/24/12 11:22 AM
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Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 88 Belmont, MA
Georges
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I am almost ashamed to admit it but 2 years I did something not smart, replacing my propane hose - that brought me in somewhat similar experience (clean salt water, not oily though - i tasted it was really puzzled:-). J/30, model 84 and after, have a propane locker starboard size of the cockpit. The copper 'through-hull' was actually at the bottom of the propane locker - which happen to be under the water-line on port tack. I had just removed the original sealed locker-through copper tube by a loose not sealed traditional propane hose. It took me a while to find it out... went to all hole, seacock, water tank, anchor drain, stuffing-box... my wife found it...:-)
Last edited by Georges; 06/24/12 11:25 AM.
-- Georges Foot Loose #467 - CPYC - Winthrop
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Re: Water in Bilge
[Re: Taras]
#13692
06/24/12 12:06 PM
06/24/12 12:06 PM
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Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 88 Belmont, MA
Georges
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Taras, Could your brown sediment be rust? When I got Foot Loose a few year back, one of the chain in the locker has gone to rust clogging the anchor locker drain. If your drain which goes though a small hose inside the hanging locker is porous or split... that might be it... just a possibility...
-- Georges Foot Loose #467 - CPYC - Winthrop
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