water water ever where!!!!!!

Either your seawater cooling side is leaking , be careful looking over the enine at full chat because of heat and belts pulleys etc catching your clothes.

or water is running back into the engine room from a forward space when you start to plane.

Or water is coming in your engine room air intakes

Or you have a leak below the waterline.

I would check the seawater and exhaust side first.
 
We had this happen last year, it turned out to be some tubeworm on the sea water filter seal, they were breaking the seal and allowing water to spray out when the engines were running. With the engines not running the water sinks to the waterline.
 
we managed to get her back to her berth with out the engines stalling, got ride of the water , well all except the last two inches under the engines, took an engineer out with us , and she did not leak, ran sweet as a bell, only thing we can think is that the sea water intake was not quite tight enough, and they were done up tightly by normal standards. So it's worth keeping an eye on them after they have been checked.
 
Were you doing lots of tight turns?

Is the bilge pump outlet in a position where this can allow water in on every turn?

Mine can do this, I need to raise the out pipe, sort of like the pump out hose on a washing machine needs to be high.
 
Actually it was quite good fun coming back past Hurst Castle on one engine against the whole Fastnet fleet going the other way. Nobody knows what restricted in ability to manoeuvre day shapes mean :-)
 
I was given a nice tip for this by an experienced Sunseeker owner at our Marina. He was returning from the west country a few years ago and suffered sea water leaking in big time, to in the bilges. The first he knew of it was when the boat came off the plane when the bilge pump couldn't handle the flow from leaking exhaust horns. He has since installed a bilge pump alarm siren as an audible warning. Sounded good to me so I took his advice! An extremely loud, tiny siren / warbler cost me £2.99 from Maplin electronics. It hasn't gone off yet but I feel better knowing that it could.
 
we were doing some genital turns and I mean genital turns, and she just wanted to go tighter and tighter so we dropped the power , this was caused by the water in the engine bay flowing to one side, the engine air intakes where never near the water, I checked all possible way it could have happened and that was ruled out as not possible. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
I got that pissed off with sinking, I to added a big claxton type siren. Bloody thing went off for no reason at all. About five miles off the Needles. No fun at all dragging all the crap out the cellar to get down to the bilge in a F 99, only to find nowt wrong.
 
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we were doing some genital turns and I mean genital turns

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I'm puzzled.I thought I was a man of the world but What are these genital turns of yours Julie?
 
OOPPS spell check let me down again /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif



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just use your imagination and think of something for them to mean, that mite be more fun /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
sounds like you got to the problem and cured it but I've had a similar experience with deep sea seals on the prop shafts. Not tightened down no sign of water at low speed but a fair torrent when throttled up. Now looking at going back to good old gland packing! Just a thought.....Iain
 
Harumph! Restricted in ability to manoevre

um with one engine you are not "restricted in ability to manoevre" surely?! You are limited to 10 knots which is the same as most other boats.
 
Re: Harumph! Restricted in ability to manoevre

I bet you're going to come out with something about being under 24m's too but anyway.

On our boat against the tide through the hurst gap on one engine; Yes, we were restricted, the boat was doing about 6kts with very nearly full rudder. We were also restricted going up the Lymington river in traffic not for lack of steerage because bursts of power and rudder solve that problem but for our inability to stop quickly. A bowthruster would solve the low speed stopping problem I think.

I think bigger boats handle exponentially better on one engine than small boats.
 
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