Hi, Joe--
Exactly that happened to me on a Catalina 25, only sailing. It would only occur on a starboard tack, so it took some time to figure out. Catalina used plastic through-hull fittings for the bilge pump and some other stuff where it goes through the transom. At a certain age, this plastic gets very brittle and it cracks, inside on the tube portion where the hose tends to cover the evidence. Your outboard tends to dig the stern in a bit and put this through-hull under water, sometimes just a little and other times a lot, depending on the wave action, speed, etc. --Dave Shugarts C-27 #4866 Cahoots (1981) SR, A4, Tiller, Dinette Newtown (Housatonic River), CT E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.BoatDiddly.com ~~~~_/)~~~~~~~~~~~~(\_~~~~ ~~~~~ (\_~~~~ On 4/22/07 12:15 AM, "Joe McCary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a new (to me) C27, an 81 outboard model. It has a Honda 4 stroke 9.9 > that is on a bracket off the rear (beyond the transom cut out). Today on a > spring sail when the wind died we powered up we ended up with water just over > the floor boards.. During the afternoon sail, I was below on several > occasions and there was no water. After powering up (moving at almost 6k) we > passed trough the wakes of several large powerboats (3¹+ waves). My wife > noticed we had water flowing in and out of the stern engine compartment. Then > I glanced below and noticed water sloshing about the bilge access board. We > slowed way down and the bilge pump emptied the water. > > So my question is where is the water coming from? Is it likely that is > sloshed over some place in the rear engine compartment? Or did it leak in > through some other source (bilge pump output or maybe sink drain or some other > place I haven¹t imagined)? I tried going through some other large wakes to > attempt to recreate the water, but no luck. I don¹t think the water was the > result of sailing, but happened while motoring. Any one have an idea? > > > > Joe McCary > Aeolus II > West River, MD > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
