- Aug 20, 2021
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- Boat Info
- Started out as MAYBE A DANCER
Became a Dancer - 12/23/21
- Engines
- 450 DA Sundancer running CAT 3126
As often overlooked trouble spot on this particular model is the "trunk compartment" or lazzerette. The entire compartment is bolted down to the cockpit floor almost the entire distance across the beam of the boat from cockpit side wall to side wall. The trunk is a fiberglass structure that has about a 2" plywood strip laid in across the entire width along the bottom edge. That piece isn't sealed down to the cockpit floor very well and it can and will leak and the plywood strip will rot. The water that enters from the trunk area will run aft on the under side of the cockpit floor then run down the inside of the hull when it reaches the transom.
Confirmation that it isn't a leak at the rub rail may be the fact that you found no moisture in the transom core when you had the survey done nor did you find any moisture when you bored sample holed into the transom.
Frank
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Hi Frank,
The cockpit floor hatch on the 10 Meter was called LAZARETTE - Guess we should be using the same verbiage on the Dancer.
Is the plywood strip accessible to where it can be sealed or repaired?
Starboard won't rot but also fails to bond well with 4200 type caulking products. Perhaps this repair could this be done with multiple pieces of Starboard and a butyl tape product ?
What's the best way to permanently resolve the plywood strip issue and keep that water from running down the inside of the hull into the engine room?
BEST !
RWS