David,
Nope, no Kabooms. RumRunner has been on the hard for a little over a year
now. Our lake decided to all but disappear and then suddenly reappear this
spring. Hartwell dropped an amazing 23 feet before the Army Corps decided to
fill it back up. We are still currently four feet below full pool, but
three years of draught conditions really hurt. I took advantage of the low
water and had her repainted. I have a couple of additional upgrades and things
to take care of and then she will be back in the water.....soon I hope.
Work seems to be getting in the way of working on her.
Rummy
In a message dated 7/14/2009 11:26:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
david.walker5 at comcast.net writes:
Rummy,
Glad to be back. BTW how's your gas tank? Any Kabooms yet?
As for the UHMWPE, there is a lot of it on my boat clearly from the
factory.
The pop top slider, boom slider and most of the outboard mount. Any way
thats not the point. I just wanted to let people know what they might
find.
The kneeling to get the cap off was fun. I used tile layers neepads and
that helped a lot. The tough part was getting the backing wrench on the
bolt heads under the flange.
David Walker
www.davidwalkerphotography.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: <R22RumRunner at aol.com>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Center Board Well Leak
> Dave,
> Welcome back to the list. Finding leaks can be a real problem when there
> are previous owners possibly involved. I have been inside five
centerboard
> trunks over the years and everyone one is different. No two were
> identical.
> Previous owners or who knows who had been changes to the pulley systems
> and
> parts that operate the centerboard. I can pretty much assure you that the
> use of UHMWPE was not a factory fix. Glad you were able to make the
> repair
> once you knew the problem. Working in that area certainly is not fun. I
> can't kneel for extended periods anymore. Old age is beginning to take
> it's
> toll on my poor abused body.
>> Rummy
>>> In a message dated 7/13/2009 3:43:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>david.walker5 at comcast.net writes:
>> Greetings to the list.
>> I haven't been active on the list for a few years but have been actively
> sailing my boat, Windswept, out of Salem harbor in MA. I re-signed up to
> share with you all something I found this spring that I think should be
> brought to all owners attention.
>> For the 11 years I have owned my R22 (bought from Stan in 1998 as
> recycled) I have been fighting a slow leak. Many helpful suggestions
> pointed at
> rainwater leaks, which I did have and were mostly fixed. However there
was
> a
> consistent salt water leak that I could not find. I pretty easily ruled
> out
> the thru hulls and was left with the centerboard well. Two years ago I
> removed the cap and cleaned the mating surfaces, replaced the fender
> washers and
> removed a small block that was through bolted to the top of the cap (part
> of the 4:1 board raising tackle). This didn't make any change.
>> Last summer returning to the boat (at her mooring) after a weeks
absence
> I
> found water about a foot above the sole. The battery was under water and
> completely shorted out. Its unclear whether the bilge pump failed or the
> increasing leak rate caused the pump to discharge the battery. Anyway, I
> limped to the local marina where I winter store, pumped out the bilge
> with a
> home sump pump, had an emergency haul and had it blocked for the
winter.
> (I
> was pretty discouraged and was about to leave on a 3 week trip).
>> This spring I resolved to find the leak once and for all. When I opened
> the boat I found a little rain water in the bilge but nothing was
leaking
> out. I filled the bilge to above the cap and a steady trickle started
to
> run
> out of the aft end of the CB slot. I lowered the water with a pump to
> just
> below the cap seal and the trickle continued. I lowered the water level
> to
> about halfway from the cap to the bilge and the trickle stopped. Very
> strange. This eliminated the cap seal and the pennant thru hull as a
> leak.
>> I removed the cap (fun job) and carefully inspected the inside of the
> well. At the aft end I found a piece of UHMWP in the shape of an upside
> down V
> wedged from side to side at the top of the well. My guess is its job is
> as
> a seat for the top of the CB when it is up to keep it from moving side
to
> side. The critical thing is that this piece was screwed in place with
> long
> screws from the top of the piece, diagonally down through the side of
the
> well from inside to outside. The tips of the screws were actually
though
> the
> outside of the well about halfway up from the blige to the cap. After
> years
> of the board banging into this, the screws had loosened in the fiber
> glass
> and I could literally just pull them out with my hand. These screws were
> loose in their holes had provided literally two holes in the bottom of
> the
> boat. I took them out, dried out the area, ground it down and patched
> with
> epoxy and two layers of glass inside and out.
>> My point in this post is that this may or may not have been done at the
> factory and I'm not blaming anyone, but it was present in my hull. If
> anyone
> has a slow leak in this area, it would be worthwile to check it out,
and
> if
> you pull your cap for any reason definetely check it. Now I just have
to
> finish all those pesky port light rain leaks!!
>>> Dave Walker
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