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| ==== Leaky boat repair...... ==== | ==== Leaky boat repair...... ==== | ||
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| **Larry Goolsby** \\ | **Larry Goolsby** \\ | ||
| 05/18/05 #265 | 05/18/05 #265 | ||
| - | Ever since my S1-X was blown off the top of my truck and had to be repaired by Sterling, it has leaked an excessive amount. I would paddle on a calm day and gain about 2 cups of water and then paddle on a choppy day and pick up about a quart. I naturally assumed that my scuppers (vents that drain the footwells) were at fault since they were the only passage through the boat interior other than the rudder. I came up with a plan to find plastic or vinyl tubing that\\ | + | Ever since my S1-X was blown off the top of my truck and had to be repaired by Sterling, it has leaked an excessive amount. I would paddle on a calm day and gain about 2 cups of water and then paddle on a choppy day and pick up about a quart. I naturally assumed that my scuppers (vents that drain the footwells) were at fault since they were the only passage through the boat interior other than the rudder. I came up with a plan to find plastic or vinyl tubing that was the exact diameter of my drain holes and line the holes by gluing a tube into each hole. This proved to be an easy task since Jude used a 3/8" drill bit to create these holes. The glue I used was recommended by Sterling and is known as "plastic cement" and is a two-part epoxy. |
| - | was the exact diameter of my drain holes and line the holes by gluing a tube into each hole. This proved to be an easy task since Jude used a 3/8" drill bit to create these holes. The glue I used was recommended by Sterling and is known as "plastic cement" and is a two-part epoxy. | + | |
| I tested my my creation last Saturday in the chop as we paddled towards Whiskey rock and came up with just as much or more water as I had ever had. So it wasn't my scuppers that were leaking. My thoughts then turned towards my rudder shaft which can be a problem if the rudder gets hit hard enough to crack the tube that connects the bottom of the boat with the top. the only way to test it's integrity was to create air pressure within the hull and see if there was leakage by coating the rudder canal with dish soap (Peter taught me this trick). In order to create the air pressure, I used my wife's garden sprayer. I simply removed the wand that extends from the spraying handle and inserted the outlet of the spraying handle into the drain hole on my Huki. I then taped a seal around this junction and pumped up the sprayer to a rather high volume of air. I was then able to squeeze the release handle on the sprayer and send all the compressed air into my hull. Lucky for me that there was a leak, otherwise I would have probably blown the deck off of my hull. | I tested my my creation last Saturday in the chop as we paddled towards Whiskey rock and came up with just as much or more water as I had ever had. So it wasn't my scuppers that were leaking. My thoughts then turned towards my rudder shaft which can be a problem if the rudder gets hit hard enough to crack the tube that connects the bottom of the boat with the top. the only way to test it's integrity was to create air pressure within the hull and see if there was leakage by coating the rudder canal with dish soap (Peter taught me this trick). In order to create the air pressure, I used my wife's garden sprayer. I simply removed the wand that extends from the spraying handle and inserted the outlet of the spraying handle into the drain hole on my Huki. I then taped a seal around this junction and pumped up the sprayer to a rather high volume of air. I was then able to squeeze the release handle on the sprayer and send all the compressed air into my hull. Lucky for me that there was a leak, otherwise I would have probably blown the deck off of my hull. | ||
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