What is this ?.

[Ashton]

Photo taken by my son as I'm unable to get into this space. Bilge V just at rise of bow. Does not seem like rust , any ideas ?

Regards to all.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

Looks like a wooden boat? ... I'd post it in the wooden boat forum.

To me it looks like rot around a poorly executed repair.. but I've never owned wooden boats.

 

[NormanS]

Doesn't look like wood to me. I take it that we're looking at steel. Sorry, but I've no idea what the greeny stuff is. Is it hard or soft?

 

[Boater Sam]

Looks like an old leak to me from a split stem weld.

 

[Ashton]

Thanks for the reply. She is s steel 38 ' cabin cruiser - photo. It is in a storage compartment forrard of engine space.
I am not young enough to squeeze in there hence photo.. It doesn't look like rust , perhaps something spilled?

 

[Poignard]

Is it a salt deposit resulting from seawater entering through a crack?

 

[KevinV]

I really hope it isn't chopped fibre filler - a horribly bodged repair?

 

[Poignard]

Or expanding foam filler?

 

[rogerthebodger]

Is it a salt deposit resulting from seawater entering through a crack?

That is what it looks like to me

 

[Stemar]

Is it a salt deposit resulting from seawater entering through a crack?

It does look like some sort of deposit left by evaporation, but if there is a leak, it's a tiny one. Is it wet?

Could you get a jet wash jet in there to see if it can be shifted? Alternatively, send your son back in with some hot waster and a stiff brush!

 

[Boater Sam]

It does look like some sort of deposit left by evaporation, but if there is a leak, it's a tiny one. Is it wet?

Could you get a jet wash jet in there to see if it can be shifted? Alternatively, send your son back in with some hot waster and a stiff brush!

Oh, aye, waster will do it.
It looks ominous!

 

[PCUK]

Yes, I thought salt. Once your boy has cleaned that out he can start cleaning the chimney!

 

[Ashton]

Boat built 1982 and as far as I know has spent practicality all of the time on inland waters in the Netherlands. In retrospect I should have got him to chip off a sample.Compartment is dry. Bye the bye many thanks to all for the input.

 

[justanothersailboat]

Is it a place someone's covered a problem with something like epoxy and it's starting to separate?

 

[veshengro]

It reminds me of the resulting gunge when a battery, even a D2 size disgorges it's innards when they go into melt down, especially if in contact with steel. Anything electrical hiding right in the stem touching the steel, is there?
I had an old steel Road Lamp with a big 9 volt battery in it that caused a very similar mess when I left it in a damp shed and went sailing for 2 years..

 

[Iliade]

Looks like someone painted it on. A rust treatment?

 

[alahol2]

Looks like someone painted it on. A rust treatment?

Agree, looks like bitumen type paint. Maybe talc or something on top to remove surface stickiness.