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| Yep Still in the same place. |
Around 1 am we herd strange sounds. Tracing them down we found water in both bilges. The starboard bilge had LOTS of water. Looked bad and was messy but pretty simple fix. The non return valve attached to the bilge pump failed ( because someone had previously taken the little ball out of it) and was siphoning water back into the bilge from outside, The port side had much less water but it was a potential serious problem. The bilge had been bone dry less than a week before but now we could see water weeping into it. OK did we miss damage while we had her out of the water and repairing the hulls? Are we going to have to come out of the water instead of taking off for the Bahamas? Needless to say we did not sleep much Thursday night. Vacuuming out the bilge and watching how fast the water came back in while we made a dash to West Marine to purchase a couple of non return valves while scratching our collective heads occupied our time on Friday. Very little water weeping in all day Friday so we cleaned the bilge real good and dry and waited to see what happened. Continuing other boat projects (there are always boat projects) I would check the bilge and was encouraged by what I saw. We had thought that maybe with me spraying and cleaning the boat combined with the heavy rains after that possibly a leak from above had slowly made it's way down behind the walls into the bilge. Checked tonight and ugh water. Almost as much as Thursday night. This time I tasted it ( way to nasty looking Thursday night). Fresh not salty. I called Freddie and he confirmed it did not taste salty.That's good news but what is going on. Idea, both Thursday and today we emptied and refilled the water tank overflowing it in the process. Next project is to check out the water tank and hopefully find the issue and that it can be fixed easily.
Got to love a boat!
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