What have I done wrong - advice please

[Twister_Ken]

In the olden days, I could always count on my MAB needing between 10 and 20 strokes of the bilge pump to dry her out when arriving aboard after a week's absence.

Since having her redecked, the pump brings up nothing more more than gnat's piss.

In the panel's opinion.

• Was the old deck leakier than I thought?
• Has the stern gland shrunk during 12 months out of the water?
• Has global warming caused increased evaporation rates for bilge water?
• Should I replace my bilge pump?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Its nothing to worry about..... your new decking is soaking it all up for you, and storing it in your foam core for later use.

 

[jimi]

Do your feet get wet now when you clamber ungainlily down into the saloon? If so a new bilge pump may be called for ..or perhaps the valve got reversed during laying up?

 

[Twister_Ken]

One other good thing about MABs is that they were built before any new-fangle-dangled ideas about foam cores or end-grain balsa with its built-in 'throw yer boat away' obsolence features.

 

[Twister_Ken]

"or perhaps the valve got reversed during laying up"

Jimi - I make plently of mistakes, but generally only once for each!

 

[ParaHandy]

i was trying to explain, recently, what a bilge was to a yoghourt pot owner but failed so i think yr post needs some graphical input and, handily enough, a recent edition of Big Brother required the contestant to empty the bilge with a leaking bucket. They failed, of course, but i can't be bothered finding pics of their filthy bilges which .. erm .. makes this post pretty useless ...

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Ah..... thats where you are going wrong..... suggest you trade up immediately to something that you can throw away after a few seasons, then you won't have to worry about changing amounts of water ingress over the years....

Seem to have read somewhere recently that you really fancied a AWB?

 

[Twister_Ken]

>Seem to have read somewhere recently that you really fancied a AWB? <

Caught in a quandary. Wanted one of them Hunters with biodegradable rudders, but have just heard about the Bavarias with detachable keels, which could be quite handy for ditch-crawling.

 

[ccscott49]

Three and probably four!

 

[Blueboatman]

? who borrowed the lowermost 6 inches of the bilge hose then ?

 

[tome]

Hee hee, naughty!

 

[Mirelle]

The answer is (1).

Dusted my bilges on Saturday, as usual. Yes, this is a wooden boat and yes we had had a good inch of rainfall in the week...

It took me years to learn where the stuff was coming from - the DECK!

Now I know, and any bilge water in future will see me chasing round the deck, not fussing over the stern gland packing, etc.

 

[tome]

Ours comes in via the keel stepped mast, but never more than a cup full.

 

[sailorman]

Wots a stern gland???? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif