MG Spring 25 interior moulding

[JohnnyG818]

I have acquired an MG Spring that I am getting ready to go back in the water. She has been neglected for some time and the jobs to do list is getting smaller. I have been putting this job off, as I dont want to cut holes in the interior moulding.
I have rain water in the lockers under the starboard berth. The only way I can think that this is getting there is through the stanchion bases or genoa track fittings, and working its way down the back of the moulding to where it becomes the locker. I would like to re-bed these fittings, but am reluctant to try in case they are nut & bolts which I have no access to the underside of.
Does anyone know if on a boat with internal mouldings, that the deck fittings are tapped in to solid blocks fixed in place?
It would be a shame to have to cut holes below everything on deck.

If there are any spring owners out there, is there anywhere else that are known leak points that I can look for?

Thanks

John

 

[FulmarJeddo]

I had a Spring for a couple of years. I made the mistake of keeping it on a very soft mud drying mooring. It normally dried with a list to Starboard and back end down. Water collectected on the cockpit seat and overflowed into the locker and then throughout the boat when it levelled out.
I also had leaks from the opening window in the heads.
My boat had a permanent list to starboard, which I put down to most heavy items were that side. Batteries, heads and everything in the cockpit locker.
Sorry can't help with your question about stanchions, but I did get water sometimes along the shelf that runs along the side of the cabin and wondered if it came from the rubbing strake, although the boat kept pretty dry when it was ashore in the cradle I had.

 

[JohnnyG818]

Thanks for that. I had considered the rubbing strake but dismissed it. Thinking about it now, I did wash a lot of crap out of it when I first got her. I will have a proper look again at the weekend. I have been over tonight and thrown a load of talc around everywhere. We will see!
I am still no wiser about the deck fittings. Even if I find the leak now is from somewhere else, I'm sure I will need to re-bed one at some point. I hope they are tapped in to some blocks!
All will become clear in time....

 

[wiggy]

I had a spring for a few years and set up the owners wrbsite, don’t know whether it is still active. As far as I know most deck fittings are taped into metal (aluminium?) plates bonded into the deck moulding. Main problem could be getting the screws out.