F 28 -Water tanks draining into bilge
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 1:06 pm
Picked up the sloop this summer.
Recently out with friend who noticed cabin sole awash with floorboard afloat.
New electric bilge pump couldn't keep up but it with manual pump emptied out bilge.
Thru hulls all fine and determined port water tank drained (while heeled over on port tack).
Next day while heeled over on starboard tack checked bilge and noticed a trickle of water coming from a black hose which emptied into the bilge.
Shortly thereafter, trickle became a flood.
Same deal, the water was from the starboard water tank.
The port tank was in use the first incident and the starboard tank the second.
The black hose entered bilge from forward area, seemed to run thru area below sink in head and then aft ...
On closer examination, the black hose had imprints from a hose clamp on its end.
I put a tapered wood dowel in the hose end and clamped it tight with a hose clamp.
Q1: Is the no check valve in the water tank line ?
Q2: What purpose does that black hose serve ?
Q3: Any idea what was clamped in the end of the hose ? a valve ? a plug?
Any thoughts as to cause of tanks emptying, curing problem etc. appreciated.
Thanks.
Tim Bambrick
Inner harbor
Baltimore
Recently out with friend who noticed cabin sole awash with floorboard afloat.
New electric bilge pump couldn't keep up but it with manual pump emptied out bilge.
Thru hulls all fine and determined port water tank drained (while heeled over on port tack).
Next day while heeled over on starboard tack checked bilge and noticed a trickle of water coming from a black hose which emptied into the bilge.
Shortly thereafter, trickle became a flood.
Same deal, the water was from the starboard water tank.
The port tank was in use the first incident and the starboard tank the second.
The black hose entered bilge from forward area, seemed to run thru area below sink in head and then aft ...
On closer examination, the black hose had imprints from a hose clamp on its end.
I put a tapered wood dowel in the hose end and clamped it tight with a hose clamp.
Q1: Is the no check valve in the water tank line ?
Q2: What purpose does that black hose serve ?
Q3: Any idea what was clamped in the end of the hose ? a valve ? a plug?
Any thoughts as to cause of tanks emptying, curing problem etc. appreciated.
Thanks.
Tim Bambrick
Inner harbor
Baltimore