Posted by seychellois_lib (seychellois_lib@…>)
I try to keep my bilge completely clean and dry when the boat is not
in use. During the winter I do get small amounts of rainwater in the
bilge from the normal sources, and of course when sailing in a seaway
I’ll take in small amounts of water, but otherwise its bone dry and
you could eat out of there. Thats the way I like it.
Am I typical? Or am I nuts? Granted, these two conditions are not
mutually exclusive for sailors.
Posted by lance_ryley (lance_ryley@…>)
Bright Star always has a little water in the bilge. This is due to two
conditions. The first one is part of the original design in which the
shower drains into the bilge. This could be connected to a manifold to
go overboard, I suppose, but it doesn’t seem to harm anything as is.
The second source of fresh water I found during my latest foray into
the engine room. I replaced the scupper hoses for the cockpit drains.
The old hoses were black, wire-reinforced hose in which the wire had
rusted and corroded the hose. I replaced these with leftover 1 1/2" ID
white sanitation hose left over from installing the Lectro-Scan. It
wasn’t easy, but for anyone else contemplating this job, it seems to be
easiest on the F-40 to attack this from the port locker. I was able to
actually jam my whole upper body between the transom and aft part of
the cockpit for extra leverage ripping off the old hoses and forcing on
the new hoses. In Bright Star, the starboard scupper leads to the port
transom exit, and vice versa. Attached to both exit holes are PVC T’s.
The port one has the starboard cockpit drain and the main bilge pump
attached to it. The starboard one has the port cockpit drain and, it
turns out, a ‘hose to nowhere.’ That extra hose probably went to an
auxiliary bilge pump, but hasn’t for at least one owner. It also
explains the previous owner’s caution that if it rained “really hard,”
the cockpit scuppers would overflow into the bilge. Now I know why. The
short-term solution is to just plug the hose, and I may add a second
electric bilge pump further aft.
Lance
Bright Star
— In freedomyachts2003@yahoogroups.com, “seychellois_lib”
<seychellois_lib@…> wrote:
I try to keep my bilge completely clean and dry when the boat is not
in use. During the winter I do get small amounts of rainwater in the
bilge from the normal sources, and of course when sailing in a seaway
I’ll take in small amounts of water, but otherwise its bone dry and
you could eat out of there. Thats the way I like it.Am I typical? Or am I nuts? Granted, these two conditions are not
mutually exclusive for sailors.
Posted by michel.capel (michel.capel@…>)
You’re not nuts, you are just damn lucky that you can keep your bilge
soooow clean!
On my F33, I always had water and oil in the bilge, and I could
certainly not eat from outta there.
— In freedomyachts2003@yahoogroups.com, “seychellois_lib”
<seychellois_lib@…> wrote:
I try to keep my bilge completely clean and dry when the boat is not
in use. During the winter I do get small amounts of rainwater in the
bilge from the normal sources, and of course when sailing in a seaway
I’ll take in small amounts of water, but otherwise its bone dry and
you could eat out of there. Thats the way I like it.Am I typical? Or am I nuts? Granted, these two conditions are not
mutually exclusive for sailors.