Wet Cabin Floor

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Pat Anderson

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Patty here. Every time we go out in Daydream we have a wet cabin floor. This last weekend the entire carpet was saturated, and it sits ON TOP of dry deck. This water is not due to splashing that might occur while running. When we got home, Pat and I checked absolutely every possible water source for leaks and came up empty (hoses to and from the fresh water tank, the hose from the bilge pump, etc.). We will ask C-Dory to check it out, I guess, when we take the boat in for its 200 hour service pretty soon. In the meantime, does anyone have a suggestion. I am so totally ticked about this. I want to walk on my nice rug barefoot in the evening!! :amgry
 
Pat,

Did you have your ICE BOX under the pilot seat with ice in it? I used my ice box only once and I had water above the dry decking due to the worthless Ice Box! I find it hard to believe that the factory hasn't addressed the issue. I've read several posts from other Brats out there who have had the same problem. I plan on contacting the factory regarding this matter. I wonder if anyone else has?

Mike
 
Pat did you check the plug that goes from the cabin to the cockpit? I still think that may be your problem, unless you have a leak in your fresh water tank. Is it wet only when the boat is in the water?
 
The icebox on Captain's Choice has a drain that runs aft to an outlet in the cabin rear bulkhead in the cockpit. I had to pull out the box one time to gete the seat out for reupholstry and couldn't get it reconnected. We don't use it anyway, just use an ice chest in the cockpit, plan to pull it out and replace with drawers/shelves as many have done. Check the drain.

Charlie
 
Check the Rub Rail! You can shine a light on the inside of the hull and detect any water entering through the rub rail screws. I had to reseal the top and underside of the rail on our 22 (1992). I plan to do the same on our new 25.
 
We had an occasional wet floor problem on our last outing, and determined that the source was the stove hot air exhaust port. I haven't had time to do diagnostics, but presume that the leak is from high waves pushing water up into the corrugated tube ducting, and the water flowing out between the ducting and the thru-hull fitting to which it is clamped.

Easy dry land test will be to stick a plastic tube into the thru-hull from the outside, sealing the tube in the thru-hull hole with plumbers putty, and then blowing a few mouthfulls of water into the tube until there's enough to totally submerge the connection. With a clear plastic hose, I'll be able to see the actual level.

Then, go inside the cabin, and poke around under the stove with a flashlight and see if water is seeping in.

If that's the source, which I expect it will be in my case, I'll need to go to an automotive parts store and get some high temp sealant, and redo the connection.

I'll let you know how it turns out. Let me know about yours.

David on Alma's Only
 
PS_Rick":2cr9l3c6 said:
Pat did you check the plug that goes from the cabin to the cockpit? I still think that may be your problem, unless you have a leak in your fresh water tank. Is it wet only when the boat is in the water?
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Yup, we took that out, put 'er back in and ran a lot of water in the cockpit to see if it got wet under that spot. It did not. Grrrrrrrr :x
 
(water tracks)
Pat what we did to find our leak on the Catch-22 was to put some sawdust on the cabin floor. This was after taking our dry deck out, and we could see a small "very small" stream coming from the foot pump for the fresh water system.
Like tracks in the sand, simple but water comes from someplace and you can track it back to its source.

good luck
Jim
 
Hi,
I had the same problem, do you have the foot pump for water? Mine had a leak at one of the fittings at the pump. They are nylon and one worked loose it would only leak when I pumped water. Bout drove me crazy before I found it. A little rtv sealant and no more problems.

Richard
 
I had a water leak on the floor while the boat was parked in the yard. After much searching i figured it was the door leaking when it rained. The door was not sitting flush against the door jam. the floor only got wet when the cavans cover was left off and it rained. We also had a bow stem leak but that was earleir and would leak while we were running the boat after being anchored all night. Hope this helps.
 
I am sure you already checked this but I had the same problem that had me stumped for awhile. What it turned out to be was the darn plug in the transom. Bought a nice new stainless T type and have not had the problem since. Seems that the water was leaking right through the center post of the plug.

Wayne
 
We've emptied the water for the winter...just carrying water containers for now...so not using the pump. We had it all dried (towel dry) last weekend while we were on it, and saw the water coming back onto the floor from the rear corner of the storage under the Wallas, so we think it's either the bilge area or the fresh water supply hose, but don't know for sure. It eventually works its way under the seat area too, tho, so it's a real PAIN to find everything wet in the storage areas...
 
When I first got my 22, I had a leak into the cabin that I couldn't trace down for the longest time. Eventually dried it out, waited for rain, and rushed to the dock to spend an hour or two on it during a down pour. I discovered that the leak was coming from a poor seal around the fill tube for the fresh water system. I'm not sure if it's in the same location on a 25, but on the 22 it's on the gunnel just in front of a little rise that's designed to channel water off the side so it doesn't run into the cockpit. Depending on the angle at which the trailer is parked, or in heavy rain, a small pool can develop here. When it leaks around the fill tube, it comes out behind the seats in the cabin, runs down the side (hidden from view) and then leaks out below onto the cabin floor. Hence it was really hard to find even though it would sometimes result in an inch of water or so in the cabin. However, once I found it, a little sealant solved the problem forever.

Roger on the SeaDNA.
 
Hmmm...interesting to see this come up again, and flipping through from the start, I see we did not post what we found to be causing our problem. There was a hint in Anna Leigh's post - he removed our ice box. Well, there was plastic tubing for the ice box drain that ran to a though hull fitting. We took the plastic tube off when we removed the ice box, without thinking about the through hull fitting. I 5200'd a cap over the through hull fitting, and bingo - dry cabin!


rogerbum":29k2nrxo said:
When I first got my 22, I had a leak into the cabin that I couldn't trace down for the longest time. I found it, a little sealant solved the problem forever.

Roger on the SeaDNA.
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