I also get water coming in through pendant hole when sailing hard in chop. cheers- Shawn Boles Grey Mist (M17 #276 1978) -----Original Message----- From: Dan White [mailto:danwhite@austin.rr.com] Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:56 PM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: M_Boats: Bilge water -- was M17 Keel/Centerboard Todd, Is it at all possible that the water in the bilge is coming in through the pendant? I always collect a little water in the bilge and it is from busting waves. I can see little squirts come up through the hole in the trunk that the pendant feeds through, After a day's sail, I have to bail several gallons. Dan "htmills@bright.net" wrote:

Howard,

Last year whilst crawling underneath Busca I noted a gap in a few spots between the exterior hull and the fabrication that forms the centerboard trunk: ___ ___ | | | | | | | | |_| |_| ^

I mixed up some epoxy with colloidal silica filler and putty-knifed it in as best I could. I'm pretty sure that I have that sealed if indeed it was a source of ingress.

For some reason, Busca isn't bone dry. A small amount of water collects in the bilge and in the little valleys in the faux lapstrakes. This past trip was about half or less of what I would normally have picked up and I think the difference was from re-doing the bottom transom gudgeon. There were little watermarks below the three bolts and I'm pretty sure I have that sealed up good now. I thought perhaps some of it could be coming from the fresh-water porta-pot tank because it is vented, but this time I tilted the porta-pot about 45* before putting it on the boat to drain off any water that would have leaked. Some could have also been coming from my water jugs on prior trips, but not this time. That leaves the through-hulls or maybe (?) the centerboard pinhole? The centerboard pin is a very tight fit, but I am not sure if water could be leaking past it, either from inside the well or outside to the inside of the keel. I don't know what is in there. I assume (perhaps Jerry could comment on this) that there is at least a partial void between the hull and the cabin sole and that if water could migrate up the keel through the ballast it could collect between the sole and the hull?

I do have an extra through-hull for a speedo but I'm going to pull that and plug it. I'm running out of ideas on where that water could be coming from. I haven't tasted it (seems like a good opportunity to get sick) to see if it's saltwater or fresh.

Tod Mills M17 #408 "BuscaBrisas"....................fiberglass/lead board, galley model

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