Hi All, We finally got some decent breeze, and after sailing heeled over, I noticed water on the floor at the galley. We had been heeling to port. I pulled the front engine cover and found water standing in the little tray under the engine. It had been fine until the boat tipped enough to spill some out onto the floor. Can I safely assume that this is from the packing gland leaking when first put into the water? And that it will stop now that it's good and wet again?
I dried out the tray to keep an eye on it, and also the bilge. Should the water have drained into the bilge? There are 3 little holes at the front of the tray under the engine, maybe they are plugged? Also, I'm uncertain about the bilge pump wiring. When I bought the boat I was told that if I left the bilge pump rocker switch on auto, then it would run as needed regardless of any other setting. Then someone else told me that I had to have the bilge pump toggle switch turned on in order for the pump to work automatically. After drying out the bilge last night, I tried lifting the switch in the bilge, and found that it wouldn't turn on when I lifted it unless the toggle switch was on, and that the auto setting on the black rocker switch seemed to do nothing. This don't seem right! It's a C270, 2004 vintage.
