First hard rain of the season
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Well, it happens every year. The first hard rain of the season, and the first drips found. What needs to be re-bed this season? OK, darn, the port light over my head in the foreberth! Whoever thought up the dripping of water on the forehead as torture is a freakin' genius. It will drive you insane in no time. So we've got to deal with that.
The other leak found was of course, the dreaded mast wires, which are also in the foreberth, ugh! We have tried a few different solutions to this common problem, but we can't get rid of this drip!
Anyone else have this problem, or found a solution?
Unrelated photo of our old boat dog:
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Big glops of 5200, well use 4200 fast cure so that you can get them off sometime down the road. The best way is to dig all the old crud out and replace it. It was that hard sail up to the Delta that tweaked the wires
Allright then! I like the
Allright then! I like the glopping method.
Particularly since the worst dripping is from duplex and triplex wire. The water is getting under the outside insulation up in the mast, and then wicking down and dripping where it's stripped below (conveniently, right over the foreberth).
Glopping sounds like a winner for that one.
"New" leaks
We have a deadlight in the salon that needs rebedding but have known about it since Rob's trip down the coast last Feb. But it's so sunny here so often we sorta have been putting it off. Bad us.
You might be able to stop the leaks by using an upsided down J tube where the wires enter the deck.
Say, here's a ? for the crowd: We have a Wallas forced air diesel heater that uses a staonless coax exhaust/intake tube. After that rain, I noticed some splotches growing out of the tube's grooves. Cleaned it all up (some of it was green, some brown) yesterday and this morning they were back. We're stumped. It's about 5 years old and doesn't appear to be corroded anywhere. Any ideas?
rob & LD
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