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Check out this link here. It is not showing up in the new posts results so maybe it will get more attention here.
http://clubsearay.com/index.php?thr...-the-bilge-at-rear-of-the-engine.85432/page-2
I have tried to narrow it down. A few weekends ago, I noticed dripping from the rear of the engine and took videos posted in thread above. Not much water but still, need to track it down. This weekend we went out for an overnight stay. I decided to seal the rear bilge from the midship bilge, where the gas tank is, by putting toilet bowl wax in the small crack where the bulkhead that separates the gas tank from the engine bay to form a seal of sorts. The wax ran width wise across the bottom of the engine bay and about 3 inches up the tapered sides. So it made a dam between the engine bay and the gas tank area. Hope that makes sense. Well throughout the day, I would check the engine bay and no water seemed to be pooling in there. Things seemed to be going good until we went to bed. We turned in approx 10:30 and by 11:50 the carpet in the front berth was getting sopping with salt water. So we made a decision to sleep in the back cabin in the middle of the boat thinking that water may be coming in through the front hook eye. Well that did seem to slow the intrusion down. The carpet was only slightly more saturated in the morning than it was only after an hour and a half of us sleeping in the front. So this had me thinking that it is in fact the front eye that is leaking. So I cleaned up the floor and the sump area under the stairs. That is when I noticed water coming in in from the screws that held the stairs to the floor. I thought, how can water be coming in from below the floor when the engine bay does not have very much water in it. It must be pooling up in the gas tank Bilge area in front of the wax damn that I made. I decided to poke a hole through the wax to see if water would come out of the tank area into the engine area. I was kind of surprised when not much water came out from the tank area. I continued to try and mitigate the water intrusion into the cabin as much as I could but water continued to seep up from under the stairs through the screws. When I finally got the boat back to dock and got her on the trailer, I pulled the rear plug while on the ramp so we were on a pretty steep angle. several gallons of water poured out of the back not including about a half gallon of water that I remove myself while at the moored. This is getting very frustrating. No submerged through hulls seem to be leaking. Not sure what to do or how to dry everything out at this point
http://clubsearay.com/index.php?thr...-the-bilge-at-rear-of-the-engine.85432/page-2
I have tried to narrow it down. A few weekends ago, I noticed dripping from the rear of the engine and took videos posted in thread above. Not much water but still, need to track it down. This weekend we went out for an overnight stay. I decided to seal the rear bilge from the midship bilge, where the gas tank is, by putting toilet bowl wax in the small crack where the bulkhead that separates the gas tank from the engine bay to form a seal of sorts. The wax ran width wise across the bottom of the engine bay and about 3 inches up the tapered sides. So it made a dam between the engine bay and the gas tank area. Hope that makes sense. Well throughout the day, I would check the engine bay and no water seemed to be pooling in there. Things seemed to be going good until we went to bed. We turned in approx 10:30 and by 11:50 the carpet in the front berth was getting sopping with salt water. So we made a decision to sleep in the back cabin in the middle of the boat thinking that water may be coming in through the front hook eye. Well that did seem to slow the intrusion down. The carpet was only slightly more saturated in the morning than it was only after an hour and a half of us sleeping in the front. So this had me thinking that it is in fact the front eye that is leaking. So I cleaned up the floor and the sump area under the stairs. That is when I noticed water coming in in from the screws that held the stairs to the floor. I thought, how can water be coming in from below the floor when the engine bay does not have very much water in it. It must be pooling up in the gas tank Bilge area in front of the wax damn that I made. I decided to poke a hole through the wax to see if water would come out of the tank area into the engine area. I was kind of surprised when not much water came out from the tank area. I continued to try and mitigate the water intrusion into the cabin as much as I could but water continued to seep up from under the stairs through the screws. When I finally got the boat back to dock and got her on the trailer, I pulled the rear plug while on the ramp so we were on a pretty steep angle. several gallons of water poured out of the back not including about a half gallon of water that I remove myself while at the moored. This is getting very frustrating. No submerged through hulls seem to be leaking. Not sure what to do or how to dry everything out at this point
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