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Re: Centerboard Trunk Leak
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Saw Rick's reply and echoing it: center board pivot pin.
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When you lower the centerboard, it attaches from there and swings down from a pin stuck in those bits of bronze pipe. The pin and centerboard where it attaches there is something that requires service and is often overdue for service. Generally, everything that needs service winds up being overdue for service on any boat because only a lucky few boats are fully taken care of. But there I go ranting again. For better or worse, after dealing with leaks and being nervous as heck about it, I had the the centerboard and centerboard pivot pin serviced then fiberglassed over the caps and pipe. Someone else had posted in this group asking "what is this?" on a T27-2 I believe where the piping and caps had been glassed over and thought hmm, that may not be a bad idea. Not saying I'm going to win this floating game, but I've got one bilge pump hooked up to the battery with an automatic/on/off switch and a second much larger (as large as I could fit in the bilge) pump that switches between battery and shore power, trying to avoid any single points of failure. Installed new bilge pumps and a new float after fiberglassing over holes some previous owner screwed all of the way through the bilge floor and then 4200'd the pumps and floats down. I know that's way more than you asked but I'm crabby about this and taking every chance to tell people not to put more unnecessary holes in boats. Anyway, in your case, you might be able to convince a plumber to go in to your leaking boat, take the old caps off, cut new thread in to the pipe, and put new bronze caps on. If the bronze needs to be replaced, that's possible, but fiberglassing it in would have to be done dry. Avoid trying to just torque those on harder. My hull #93 came with hairline cracks around the port side pivot pipe very likely from caps being torqed on or off too hard. If anyone has to pull hard to get those off, imo, add a bunch more fiberglass layup first. Cheers, -scott On 0, Patrick McGough <patrick.mcgough@...> wrote:
Let me first by saying I am in no risk of the boat sinking...as I sit here she is firmly sitting on the bottom at low tide...I came out yesterday morning to find water up to the floorboards because of a slow leak from the port side pipe that extends out from the trunk...the bilge got switched to manual...no harm no foul...Question...what are those outlets for that have the caps on them?? Any recommendations on solutions...there is a good bit of water pressure behind those caps so short of pulling to address....what have you all done...picture attached for reference....Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note20 5G, an AT&T 5G smartphone |
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