On 19 Apr 2009, at 09:45, Tony Brooks wrote:
> The yard may well have vacuumed the water out but it always takes
> time to fully drain down. By all means dry it now and come back in
> a week or so but you may well still find water there, less, but
> still some water.
>
> If there is any ventilation down there at all it will dry on its
> own - eventually. I always my cabin bilge trap open during the
> winter or if we are leaving the boat for long periods.
>
> I can not answer the bit about the floor rotting because we do not
> know what its made of (having seen Broads cruisers with strawboard
> floors looking like porridge in the bilge in the past).
>
> If you are really concerned about rot and drying the ballast your
> best bet would be to try to organise a permanent vent at both ends
> of the bilge in a manner that gives you a through draft. If it has
> an electric fridge then fitting a fan to the fridge control box to
> draw cool air up from the bilge would then help the fridge and also
> ventilate the bilge.
Just to make a couple of sensible contributions to this thread, to
make up for my levity earlier:
I would be more worried about the repair to the calorifier. One of my
fellow bloggers went to great lengths to find someone who would braze
a repair to theirs the other week. It worked out cheaper than
replacing the cylinder, but I did wonder about the wisdom of doing
so. Once a calorifier had started giving trouble, I'm not sure I
would trust it again, and would feel much happier just replacing the
thing. Domestic water failure is such a source of grief when it happens.
Secondly, even without a fan, presumably the warmth of the heat
exchanger coil on the back of the fridge would draw the cool air up
from the bilge, as long as there was a ventilator above it to allow
the warmed air to escape?
All the best
Bruce
"The superior man knows what is right, the inferior man knows what
will sell" Analects of Confucius, circa 500 BCE
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