michaelmooney
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deck leaks,any advice on how to trace deck leaks?
deck leaks
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DJE
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Slowly and methodically. One person on deck with a hose drenching each suspect fitting or joint in turn. One person in the cabin looking to see when the water comes in. I was convinced my stanchion bases were leaking until this method proved it was the foreward hatch.
brianhumber
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Echo DJE, took me 6 years to get mine water tight
eyupdougdown
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Partition your deck off into 1 metre square areas. Use coloured dyes in fresh water in each seperate parts of your deck then check the colour of the drip. You may find that it is an amalgamation of two or more colours then you know you are into a complex situation which always helps before you start fault finding.
I would just wait until there has been five consecutive days of hot dry air with no rain - and then go around everywhere with sikaflex squeezing it into every gap and wiping off any excess with a solvent covered rag before it has solidified. This will leave a neat job and a dry cabin.
I would just wait until there has been five consecutive days of hot dry air with no rain - and then go around everywhere with sikaflex squeezing it into every gap and wiping off any excess with a solvent covered rag before it has solidified. This will leave a neat job and a dry cabin.
Spuddy
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trick from the forum previously - sprinkle talcum powder on the inside of hull and see where the trickles show up. course all these modern boxed out boats make it more difficult.