Fuel tank leak

Bouba said:
Unfortunately a few events have happened at the same time, hurtling my back being a biggie. I’m much better but just unscrewing and rescrewing the sender was my limit today.
I feel that your advice is sage
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Removing the sender tells you that there's some fuel left in the tank but you knew that already. I think you kept a note of fuel collected and level reported.

I assume that you must have disconnected the pipes by now. I would say that is the single most important task, much higher priority than unscrewing the sender and should be an easy task.
  1. A continuing leak from an isolated tank means that the tank is leaking.
  2. No leak means the leak was downstream OR the tank level has dropped enough to stop the leak.
If the leak stops then you add fuel to the isolated tank to see if the leak starts again.

I think you mentioned in #235 that the leak might have stopped because the diesel had thickened at low temperature. I imagine you won't have winter spec. fuel left in the tank but would be very surprised if it's cold enough in South of France to have much impact on diesel flow rate.
 
Where are the Passerelle pics , the transom reinforcement DIY / fix .
We never got to the conclusion of it was ” Bessenzonis fault “

Now we have Beneatau involved with a fuel leak in 7 yr old boat .
Will we see the end of this thread ,the fix ?
 
Portofino said:
Where are the Passerelle pics , the transom reinforcement DIY / fix .
We never got to the conclusion of it was ” Bessenzonis fault “

Now we have Beneatau involved with a fuel leak in 7 yr old boat .
Will we see the end of this thread ,the fix ?
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I'm sure I remember seeing all the photos of the reinforcement, it was pretty well done if I remember, with two very nice wavy stainless steel plates transferring the force to a more substantial part of the boat.
 
Portofino said:
Where are the Passerelle pics , the transom reinforcement DIY / fix .
We never got to the conclusion of it was ” Bessenzonis fault “

Now we have Beneatau involved with a fuel leak in 7 yr old boat .
Will we see the end of this thread ,the fix ?
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It’s a fair question. My passerelle works perfectly but.....well you know I can’t leave well enough alone. So for the sake of belt and braces, I thought I’d take all possible spring board effect out of it with some minor modifications. Can I just say that I spent a long time and did a lot of research (sitting in the cockpit watching people get on and off their boats). My conclusion was that all boats have some spring board bounce with their passerelles. Some quite a lot and some people don’t like fully extending the passerelle because of it. Even large very expensive boats did it. And nearly everyone was worse than mine.
All except Princess, those are like rock. Not a hint of vibration.
So I thought that three small well place triangles welded in would help to almost totally eliminate it. I got the stainless, made the templates, cut the triangles, talked to some welders (on here) watched some vids and did some practice. When I was satisfied I was upto the job, I waited for a time when I was ready to empty the lazaret (the more room you create the better the job) plus I thought that the end of the hot weather would be more pleasant in the lazaret in my full welding suit.
Then I got that first faint whiff of fuel.....
 
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