Hands Up if.....

[mattonthesea]

Once, when a relative novice on a Foxhound, the water was found to be above the sole boards but it was just the stuffing box needing 'a few turns' so it was OK.

+1

i was exactly 1000 miles from Grenada when i noticed water in the bilges. i was on my morning maintenance round and it was only about 20 litres. But this was still quite frightening when on my own and so far from land xxx. I took Chay Blythe's advice from his book and had a cup of tea to think it over. I realised fairly quickly if that it must be from the stuffing box. a look through the boat bible and a check on everything it turned out to be that i'd run out of greece. Replace grease, two turns, all sorted.

some of you may remember asking for advice on how to prepare it for the journey back.☺

Matt

http://www.ayearatsea.co.uk

 

[simon barefoot]

I was on a 24' fishing boat, hauling longlines in January one year and suddenly became aware that the deck was level with the water, and then suddenly we were down at the stern and the back 3 or 4' of deck was awash. We still had a lot of line out and didn't want to drift over it if we stopped hauling, so the skipper tied it off and controlled it by hand whilst I started hunting for the leak. Turned out there was a drain plug on the watercooler that had come undone and had filled the bilges. Luckily it hadn't killed electrics or the engine, unluckily the bilge pump had stopped working, and the bucket didn't fit between the engine and the side of the deck hatch. So a slow bale whilst I held my finger in the hole dyke style! That was a long, slow and COLD trip home.

 

[fisherman]

I was on a 24' fishing boat, hauling longlines in January one year and suddenly became aware that the deck was level with the water, and then suddenly we were down at the stern and the back 3 or 4' of deck was awash. We still had a lot of line out and didn't want to drift over it if we stopped hauling, so the skipper tied it off and controlled it by hand whilst I started hunting for the leak. Turned out there was a drain plug on the watercooler that had come undone and had filled the bilges. Luckily it hadn't killed electrics or the engine, unluckily the bilge pump had stopped working, and the bucket didn't fit between the engine and the side of the deck hatch. So a slow bale whilst I held my finger in the hole dyke style! That was a long, slow and COLD trip home.

Dykes? Rings a bell.