Water in storage compartment under V-berth 290 Sundancer

[toharrington]

Found several inches of standing water under V-berth of my 2007 290DA. Washed out anchor locker, drains appropriately. Ran hose over all the forward exterior hardware and couldn't demonstrate leak. Any ideas out there?

[hanger505]

just the V-berth? Or is water found throughout the forward bilge area?

[Sadler]

The AC is under the V berth on my boat. I suppose there could be a leak from the water line to the AC if your boat also has the AC there.

[toharrington]

just the V-berth? Or is water found throughout the forward bilge area?

The storage compartment under the V-berth. Pretty sure it's not the AC. Yesterday, we narrowed it down to hardware port and forward, maybe the rub rail. Removed two layers of screws (stainless strip and plastic underneath), filled holes with silicone and replaced. Didn't remove the plastic rub rail itself. I haven't removed the cover for the anchor locker yet, it looks like the rest of the hardware (port cleat, stanchion, windlass switches and spotlight) drain into anchor locker, but I'm not positive yet. Waiting for silicone to dry to test. I'll check tomorrow.

Thanks for the response, any ideas are helpful.

[Turtlesboat]

We had the same issue on our 280, it was the rub rail running under the foam back vinyl into the v-berth compartment.

[toharrington]

What did you do?

[toharrington]

Removed screws from stainless steel rub rail, removed screws from rubber rub rail (did not remove rubber rub rail itself). Filled screw holes with silicone and replaced screws: no water!