obsessive
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I'm having a rather odd problem that's plagued our boat for the three years we've had it. After finding a deck hatch that was leaking, I decided I'd had enough and want to aggressively attack this, but I need some help. We just got done with the 5th larges amount of recorded rainfall in my area, so it's pretty much been raining non stop.
The boat gets water in the shower sump area around the shower sump box. The area around the box is coated with the same grey epoxy that the engine compartment/bilge is, and has what appears to be a plywood inbed (epoxy/glass coated as well) to provide a flat mounting surface for the shower sump brackets. This area is under the top stair, underneath where the garbage can goes.
I do know a few things, the sump is NOT leaking. We do not have A/C, and the water is NOT running in from the sides. It is, however, coming in in a weird way. To the right (in the photos) of the shower sump mounting 'pad' (the plywood inbed mentioned earlier) is a small area that has small voids in the grey epoxy (presumably bubbles from application that 'popped' when it cured). Out of these 1/16" voids (they number two or three) comes water. It is a seeping flow (you can see it coming in if you vacuum it out), and sometimes will be dry, and other times fill within an inch of touching the carpet.
The odd thing is that it never gets higher than that. Initially I thought it was a hull leak, but I figured that area is well under the water line, and the water level in there mimics the level in the engine bilge.
HOW is this water making it from the bilge to the shower sump area? I'm assuming there's some small voids in the engine bilge area and its letting water up there. How do I stop it? What other damage is it doing? Am I right to assume that it's not pressurized water coming in, as it always stabilizes.
Please help me tackle this annoying (and possibly destructive?) issue. And, sorry for the somewhat poor photos, all I had was my cell phone camera.
Thanks,
Eric
The boat gets water in the shower sump area around the shower sump box. The area around the box is coated with the same grey epoxy that the engine compartment/bilge is, and has what appears to be a plywood inbed (epoxy/glass coated as well) to provide a flat mounting surface for the shower sump brackets. This area is under the top stair, underneath where the garbage can goes.
I do know a few things, the sump is NOT leaking. We do not have A/C, and the water is NOT running in from the sides. It is, however, coming in in a weird way. To the right (in the photos) of the shower sump mounting 'pad' (the plywood inbed mentioned earlier) is a small area that has small voids in the grey epoxy (presumably bubbles from application that 'popped' when it cured). Out of these 1/16" voids (they number two or three) comes water. It is a seeping flow (you can see it coming in if you vacuum it out), and sometimes will be dry, and other times fill within an inch of touching the carpet.
The odd thing is that it never gets higher than that. Initially I thought it was a hull leak, but I figured that area is well under the water line, and the water level in there mimics the level in the engine bilge.
HOW is this water making it from the bilge to the shower sump area? I'm assuming there's some small voids in the engine bilge area and its letting water up there. How do I stop it? What other damage is it doing? Am I right to assume that it's not pressurized water coming in, as it always stabilizes.
Please help me tackle this annoying (and possibly destructive?) issue. And, sorry for the somewhat poor photos, all I had was my cell phone camera.
Thanks,
Eric
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