Does anyone know if there is a way for water to get into the boat from the anchor locker if the drain gets clogged? It appears to be a sealed compartment except for the drain going outside. Any advice is appreciated. I have a 2002 Catalina 36 MK II
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Nancy
Cat's Meow #2046
San Francisco
2002 MK II
As far as I recall, there is a short piece of hose from the anchor well drain to the thru-hull just above the water line. If the hose were to leak, the water would drain into the hull, in the empty compartment below the forward water tank. This should drain to the bilge.
Gary and Cathy Price
1997 C36 Mk II Tall Rig/Wing Keel Imagine...
Hull # 1617
Worton Creek, Md.
Northern Chesapeake Bay
Except on some boats, ours was one of them, there is no limber hole for water to get from that front area to the bilge. So I drilled one in, carefully.
hope you went carefully horizontally and not carefully vertically...:eek:
are you speaking of right under the drawers under the forward berth, or is there a 'bulkhead' further forward???
Gary and Cathy Price
1997 C36 Mk II Tall Rig/Wing Keel Imagine...
Hull # 1617
Worton Creek, Md.
Northern Chesapeake Bay
Very carefully indeed Gary. It is the one under the drawers. There was no hole there and water would just pond in there. It looked like it would build up in depth until it could flow down the port side and then go into the bilge via the hole were the water lines pass through from the head to the V-berth. It would make it there eventually but several inches of water could lay up in there and would eventually stink I expect. So after much measuring (measure twice, bore once) and thinking, drilled the hole and it was fine.
Thanks for the info. I'll check mine and be sure that's where it came from.
Nancy
Cat's Meow #2046
San Francisco
2002 MK II
Nancy, exactly where are you seeing the water? And what makes you think it's coming from the bow area?
Larry Brandt
S/V High Flight #2109
Pacific Northwest, PDX-based
2002 C-36 mkII SR/FK M35B
I had the boat delivered back from Cabo and the delivery team told me that they had a lot of water come in. I was told that the drain in the anchor locker got clogged and water than came into the boat and was on the floor boards. I don't know exactly how much.
I can't seem to find how the water would come in the boat as opposed to going out the top of the locker. It looks as if the locker is sealed except for the drain out the side and the vent for the water tank.
I'm trying to figure this out to be sure that it can't happen again. I can't find anyway for salt water to come in other than the bildge overflowing. I am not seeing any leaks anywhere from the seacocks, no unusual amount of water in it since it's been home.
Nancy
Cat's Meow #2046
San Francisco
2002 MK II
Is the anchor locker unit sealed to the underside of the deck? That, or leaks around the windlass if you've got one installed in the anchor locker, or around any other wiring or plumbing up there are the only ways I could think of water overflowing it and into the boat.
But even if it did it should have gone to the bilge before it could overflow onto the floor, even without a drain hole ours would eventually go to the bilge and not flow onto the floor. Sounds really odd.
Hi Nancy:
Is it possible the hull to deck joint at the bow is leaking? Or perhaps the delivery crew left the forward hatch open or unlatched in heavy seas and felt the best explanation was to blame the boat? Just a couple of thoughts.
Tom & Janis Grover
C36 #0949
SR/WK, M25XP
Midland, ON
I don't think it is the deck joint as we had heavy seas down the coast of Baja (not usual to say the least!). I am wondering about leaving a hatch open. The story I got just doesn't make sense.
Nancy
Cat's Meow #2046
San Francisco
2002 MK II
I had a similar problem this past summer. There was a leak in the upper bulkhead corner of the anchor well at the hull. The anchor well had filled while beating into large waves, and the drain hole was plugged with a piece of cellophane. The hole in the bulkhead corner seemed small for the amount of water that had entered the boat and continued to come in until I pumped the anchor well. Pumping the anchor well and plugging the bulkhead hole fixed the problem.