Morning
I'm a new Catalina owner 2020 and have found this forum so helpful.
Wanted to share a fix from yesterday.
Motored back to the slip and found water on the floor of the galley dribbling into the salon. Not going to sink us but also not ok.
pulled things apart and found a steady trickle of sea water (tasted it) coming from the forward right corner of the base of the AquaLift.
read the manual and this site for insight. Then I checked the siphon valve and found the my butterfly valve is also as crusted up as most of everyone else's.
pulled some more things open.
found that the hose clamp on the raw water cooling hose to the top of the muffler had broken.
quick new clam installed and No More Water.
Good catch. Thanks for sharing. I will check my clamp.
Sail La Vie 1999 Catalina 36 MKII, M35B-17031, Coyote Point, San Mateo, CA
About Sail La Vie
Glad you had an easy fix. Here is a handy dandy way to know if water in the bilge is fresh or salt. Take a table spoon of it, put it in one of those black Teflon coated frying pan and boil it off. Bright white residue shows if salt. This way you don't have to taste the bilge!
Al Fricke
S/V Jubilee San Francisco Bay
Catalina 36' MkII #1867
Universal 35-B