Hi Folks,
The list has been pretty quiet lately. Everyone must be out sailing :) Welcome to the new members!
My boat has been VERY dirty lately...for example, we have a bumper crop of spiders (they leave blue marks), and we have swallows in our marina that perch on the lifelines and leave their calling cards all over the deck about 2 inches from the toe rail. Needless to say, we are constantly washing down the boat prior to sailing. When we wash down the cockpit with the hose, we get water leaks down below. I am pretty sure the leaks are coming from the lazarettes. By that, I mean that the water is forced below either at the piano hinge, or simply where the lazarette lid meets its deck/cockpit partner. My question to you is whether you have the same leaks, and what we might do about it? I have the vinyl edging on the cut edge of the lazarette opening, but I don't think it seals when the lid is down.
BTW, great sailing day today on southern Lake Michigan. South wind (offshore) at 12-14 kts, gusting 20, water was flat with little one foot rollers. Since we weren't reefed, we did round up a couple of times in the gusts on a beat.
Cheers!
Dave S.
s/v Clio
1987 S2 27, hull #80 (model "B")
