Help, puddles of water on the cabin floor.

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Barbara & Joe Motter

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Help! We have a 2006 - 25 foot C-Dory with 40 hours --that seems to have a leak. Have any of you experienced the following.

The floor of the cabin has puddles of water -- water leaking from the cabin bilge.

There is a bulkhead that separates the cockpit from the cabin.
Water that accumulates in the cockpit will drain into the transom bilge pump.

Water that accumulates in the cabin will drain into the cabin bilge pump.

UNLESS, there is a leak in the bulkhead that separates the cockpit from the cabin. Then water may be coming from the cockpit area into the cabin bilge. We do not believe this is the problem.

The cabin bilge pump is required by the Coast Guard, due to the length of the boat, otherwise, a shorter boat would not have this bilge.

Have any of you had this problem and if so what was the cause.

Many thanks for any help you can be.
Barbara & Joe Motter
 
Hello Barbara and Joe,

We have the first 2007 CD-25 and had the same problem. Ours turned out to be the fact that the rub rail was not sealed properly on the starboard side. I removed the rub rain, filled the holes with 5200, put a fine bead on top of and underneath the rub rail and the puddles went away. Our rub rail had actually been RE-DRILLED and none of the holes filled, compounding the problem. :? It took me the better part of a couple days and the skin off my thumb (my pound of flesh??) from fitting the rubber part of the rub rail back in place.

Check our photo album here to see the rub rail and drop me a note if you have any questions. This should certainly be a warranty issue (and the factory is aware of it), but we are over 1000 miles from the nearest dealer. Not a tough/technical fix.

HTH

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
Barabara and Joe-

It seems like the 25's have had a number of leak problems. Some are caused by the rub rail, others by a leaky water tank, Wallas stove exhaust, shower stall or pump hose, fresh water plumbing, etc. There are a number of threads on the subject:

Here's one " Leaky 25's"

HERE"S another "Another Leaky 25"


Joe.
 
We had a similar problem. I found the float switch on the shower sump pump had failed, overflowing the sump and flowing into the cabin. There are many other possible causes mentioned above.
 
I had this problem (among others) with a 2004 25'Cruiser. Turned out to be a leak in the bulkhead between the bilge area where the fuel tank is and the cabin. I traced the location by putting some food coloring (pick a color you like) in the bilge compartment and just add water. In my case the small leak was in the bulkhead under the step on the port side, down low. I had to lift and otherwise move some hoses and wiring to get to the actual leak. My guess is that the leak was from insufficient fiberglassing. I used a fiberglass patching kit to patch the bulkhead from the inside as I didn't want to cut a hole in the salon deck to get to the other side. My only concern is if there is a wooden core in the bulkhead, it might stay wet and later rot if water gets to it from the bilge side of the bulkhead.

This and the othr problems gave me a great opportunity to get to know the workings of the boat and we're starting to get along fine now.

Rob from the land of the Chesapeake.
 
We had the same symptoms when on a trailer with an angle such that the bow was low. (i.e. trailer tongue was aimed down a grade) Water built up by the cabin door, went underneath it and left puddles (1-2 inches deep) in the cabin.

The same thing can happen if your cockpit bilge fills up and the cockpit bilge pump battery goes dead from overuse. The cockpit floor hatches leak like crazy unless a fix is applied. I started one thread on this subject. Hatch fixes are defined there.

Bill
Edgewater, MD
 
Is it salt water? If so one other place. The chain locker was not completely sealed, so that the water coming into the locker drained into the boat, and not back out through the overboard hull. Once the bow was filled with water, then it would leak out around the fresh water supply, whence it cometh out of the front. I sealed the open hole in the anchor locker, but the factory had to drill a drain hole to get the water out of the forward part of the bow.

Boris
 
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