Sometimes the problem isn¹t siphoning, through the bilge pump system as you might think.
The through-hulls that Catalina put on appeared to be nylon early on, and the plastic breaks down with age. You may have a cracked through-hull, or cracked hose, that lets water in every time the transom dips just a little bit. This happened to me on my C-25 and was intermittent, so it took me a while to catch it. I happened to be doing an aircraft-style walk-around while it was on land, and I stuck my finger in there and a chunk of the through-hull dropped off with no effort. You can inspect inside the transom via the holes in the foot of the quarter berths and see if there¹s evidence of a dribble. --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 9/24/07 5:15 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, hope you had a good weekend as we did. I remember a wile back some > one had a problem with their manual bilge pump siphoning water back thru and > into the bilge. We did some extensive motoring this weekend and it happend to > us. Luckily, we caught it just just in time. We had to keep working the bilge > pump every half hour or so to keep the water in check. > > I am guessing I will need to place a one way check valve somewhere in this > system. What would be the best approach to fixing this one? > > Ted Pinelli > 5082 Andiamo > > Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail > <http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/index.htm?ncid=AOL > AOF00020000000970> ! >
