Leak in cabin sole

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HiCap

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This one is a stumper. I have a 2007 22' cruiser. There is a hairline crack in the jelcoat just inside the bulkhead on the cabin sole. Fresh water comes up at a rate that ponds about a 1/16th of an inch and then stops. As soon as it will dry I will try to seal the crack, but it hasn't dried in four weeks.

The water must be coming from the outside; it rained hard, and the water came in faster. There must be an accumulation under the raised cockpit sole.

As I understand it, the cabin sole is the top of the solid hull. Thus, no voids to hold water.

Any thoughts?

Peter
 
Is this crack inside of the cabin bulkhead? (forward of the aft bulkhead?). The hull bottom is not solid. It has a glass laminate on the outside, a balsa core, and then an inner layer. If there is delamination of the balsa and inner layer, water can collect in this. The water could be coming in any place--if it is coming in thru this crack in the floor. Certainly the 22 water tank is close to this area. There have been leaks where the rub rail is riveted to the hull (and should be glassed/filler over on the inside), from a deck fill, from a thru hull (if present) or from the aft bilge, if the cockpit floor is raised above the hull bottom.

Is the boat trailer kept? if so is it blocked so that any water in the bilge drains out the aft bilge plug (in the transom?). If the boats are level on the trailer, it is possiable that water can run forward. This could also be a defect in the tabbing which holds the aft bulkhead in place, and the water is coming under the aft bulkhead and the glass tape which holds this bulkhead in place--this would like like a crack in the inner layer, but would just be an area where the bond of the tabbing was not adherent.

Take a photo and post it.
 
Sawdust, right on. The filler pipe was loose and water had ponded under the tank. I fixed that, and the water was removed from the locker. Still water in the cabin. Perhaps there was so much that escaped that it hasn't dried.

Thataway, the boat is in the water all the time.

Peter
 
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