Leaky Fishboxes. Grrrr!

Captains Cat · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 5:28 pm Post subject:

Warren, I would think if you drill a hole in the lip, much as the picture shows, if it's dry with an overboard, the boxes should be dry if it goes into the bilge. I think I'm going to try it on my TC. Raising the overboards on my bilge pumps and macerator pumps has helped immensely. They were all down at the waterline and the check valves always leaked a little.

I was in the Navy for 32 years and all of our ships had "wet" bilges. Very messy but necessary! Just dump some Simple Green or other cleaner in there once in awhile, put in some water, find some rough water and pump it out! No Oil over the side of course... Wink

Charlie

Doryman · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:46 pm Post subject:

Charlie,

Do you mean you removed the factory through-hulls for the bilge & macerator pumps, etc. glassed them over, and put them in again at a location higher up from the waterline? (I am assuming that what you are calling overboards I am calling through-hulls.)

I tried the trick of drilling holes in the lip of the fishboxes and it did not make much difference for me.

Warren

Captains Cat · Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:56 am Post subject:

Warren, that's exactly what I had done. Didn't do it myself, had a lot of other work done at the time and he did a great job. "Lewisetta Marina". The old thru hull locations were very problematic.

For some reason, the hole in the lip with the overboard seemed to work for Tom Little.

Charlie