One thing to check are the hoses from the cockpit scuppers to the thru-the-hulls. Once while sailing, my bilge quickly filled with water and over flowed until the pump caught up. I thought I had sprung a leak. Turned out that the hoses wore thru on the bottom side of the bend. When it rained the night before, the water went under the engine rather than out the bottom of the boat. When I heeled over, the water flowed into the bilge quickly filling it . John Wamboldt C27 #6287 ZuZu's Petals Lake Michigan In a message dated 6/8/2010 10:52:57 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
I have a 2003 270 and have the same issue with the water under the engine. This is our second season and I have yet to track down it's source. I have checked my packing gland and never found any water out of it as well as the entire engine block. I checked the entire block when under way and also never found anything. My best guess is it's leaking somewhere form the muffler somehow, but it's tough to get to to investigate while under way. I've never had enough to cause any concern so I'd just keep an eye on it if I were you. Regarding the bilge pump . . . I would imagine ours are wired the same way. The breaker has to be in the ON position for it to work no matter what. Mine is hard wired to battery number 1 so the house battery switch has no effect (which is the way I want it). When left to Auto, the float switch should kick it on when the water level rises too high. Manual should kick it on no matter what. but again, the breaker HAS to be on on mine for anything to happen. So from your description below, yours seems to be working correctly as long as it kicks on when you put it to manual. Mike --- In [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) , Ron Ginter <rongin...@...> wrote: > > 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. >
