Water under the engine.

[tillergirl]

Just before some war or other used to have a Saturday job in proper boatyard.
Sometimes hulls were filled with River Medway to tighten up the seams before being pumped out and officially launched.
Remember visiting a new fully fitted out yacht at some unearthly hour to check it had not sunk.
Tales that wooden lighters were sunk for a tide to get rid of rats or other vermin.
The blocks are still just visible below Aylesford Bridge.
Remember all Dad's wooden workboats determinedly rotting away beneath his feet,until bought a steel workboat , that simply rusted.
It must have doubled in weigh due to double plating.
The smell of damp cabin with hints of diesel can never be forgotten.
Wood is woodworm dinner. Glassfibre is forever.

Oh, I would never comment that Kent builder's never quite managed to build proper wooden boats.

 

[oldgit]

Oh, I would never comment that Kent builder's never quite managed to build proper wooden boats.

HMS Victory !
What its doing down in Portsmouth is any ones guess.

 

[bluerm166]

Is there something about the beneteau 311 that makes nobody query the state of the shaft seal ?

 

[Zedders]

My beneteau 311 has developed a water leak under the engine I cannot see and water coming from the engine or drive shaft? I have had the boat 3 years. where do I start to lookplease?

I too have a Beneteau 311 and have also just pumped out 3-4 litres of freshwater from beneath the engine. But my boat has been on dry land for over 3 years and the engine not used! About to go check the hot water heater. Any other ideas?

 

[alandalus11]

Rain water finding its way in somehow through fixings or drain holes???

 

[Tranona]

Only 2 possible sources. Leaks from deck fittings windows etc letting rainwater in or leaks from the freshwater system.

 

[ex-Gladys]

As TG says, dip your finger in the water, place finger on tip of tongue, you will taste salt, or fresh or possibly anti-freeze!

 

[oldgit]

H,mm.You think you have got a problem ?
A ...........MWE. **

A cup or so of water each week in the mid bil

Life is getting to short and what a wonderful device the VAX is but but the problem remains like grit in the oyster.
"When you have eliminated all which is possible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
S Holmes E.sq.

OK, no more nice guy
French boats are not renown for access to bilges, this was easily solved with with brute force and a cheapo hole cutter.
An afteroons work produced several holes in the bottom of various lockers and some neat access hatches fabricated using the removed circles of wood.
The curious case of water under the Poo Tank was Solved and only took 12 months.
One of the impossible to inspect outer bilges under the fridge was full of water. When it became full it the surplus drained into the bilge immediately below and then drained to the bilge holding the Poo Tank.
Almost certainly been like it from NEW !

** Mysterious Water Event.

Was not the fridge.
The calorifier chamber had split and weeping.
It of course took another year of fruitless searching to discover this.
Involved dismantling half the saloon to get at and replace the calorifier, of course none of the fittings and connections on the new calorifier matched up with any on the old one, despite going to some considerable expence buying exactly the the same model, make and capacity to avoid any connection grief.