Hr352 1982

[All_at_Sea]

Anyone got one of these, l need some advice on a leaking keel!!!! Maybe diesel from the keel fuel tank but oddly it seems to be weeping from the lower keel, port side. Could this be possible? Hallberg-Rassy 352

 

[pvb]

The 352 has a fully encapsulated keel. The ballast is in the forward part, then there's a deep bilge about 300mm square, then at the aft end of the keel there's the fuel tank. There's usually a screwed-in brass bung on the port side, in the bottom of the bilge. If the tank is leaking, you'd see fuel in the bilge. If there's weeping from the ballast area of the keel, it's probably just rusty water, but then you wouldn't have mistaken that for diesel.