Hi all,

I'm hoping that someone is able to help with a pressing issue on my Anglo Marine Wanderer 910. My brother and daughter sailed it yesterday and after a full day of sailing, capsized it on the way back in. It turned turtle quickly, which I've heard is common so I'll press ahead with plans to do the MD conversion and add masthead buoyancy. However, the main issue is the amount of water that flooded the side and front tanks, which I believe are connected. After being over for about 10 minutes, the tanks were nearly half full (6 inches high with water inside) when they got back in. I have a hatch in the front tank which was added to do a mast base repair, and when I opened it the water came pouring out. The hatch itself is definitely watertight (no water got out when the boat was the right way up!). Does anyone have any idea how the water gets in, in this quantity? I can't see any cracks or gaps. And as it's dry in normal use, there must be a gap higher up so that it's only an issue when capsized. Does anyone have any ideas at all? I'm now totally baffled on this one! Only think I can think of is whether there is a gap under where the thwart attaches?

Jonathan Daniel

Hi Jonathan,

When I did the hog/mast step repair on mine it was apparent that there wasn't much glue holding the inner lining to the hull on the port side, hence water in the bottom of the boat got into the tanks. I've added epoxy and tape which seems to have fixed that problem. Water also gets in through the cleats that hold the floorboards down - this is harder to fix.

The tanks were full of polystyrene but this makes it impossible to bail out as the water is full of plastic beads so I've replaced that with plastic bottles - at least the water won't sink the boat.

Cheers

Martin

Hi all,

I'm hoping that someone is able to help with a pressing issue on my Anglo Marine Wanderer 910. My brother and daughter sailed it yesterday and after a full day of sailing, capsized it on the way back in. It turned turtle quickly, which I've heard is common so I'll press ahead with plans to do the MD conversion and add masthead buoyancy. However, the main issue is the amount of water that flooded the side and front tanks, which I believe are connected. After being over for about 10 minutes, the tanks were nearly half full (6 inches high with water inside) when they got back in. I have a hatch in the front tank which was added to do a mast base repair, and when I opened it the water came pouring out. The hatch itself is definitely watertight (no water got out when the boat was the right way up!). Does anyone have any idea how the water gets in, in this quantity? I can't see any cracks or gaps. And as it's dry in normal use, there must be a gap higher up so that it's only an issue when capsized. Does anyone have any ideas at all? I'm now totally baffled on this one! Only think I can think of is whether there is a gap under where the thwart attaches?

Jonathan Daniel

On 21 Mar 2023, at 08:28, Jonathan Daniel via groups.io <jdaniel1000@...> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm hoping that someone is able to help with a pressing issue on my Anglo Marine Wanderer 910. My brother and daughter sailed it yesterday and after a full day of sailing, capsized it on the way back in. It turned turtle quickly, which I've heard is common so I'll press ahead with plans to do the MD conversion and add masthead buoyancy. However, the main issue is the amount of water that flooded the side and front tanks, which I believe are connected. After being over for about 10 minutes, the tanks were nearly half full (6 inches high with water inside) when they got back in. I have a hatch in the front tank which was added to do a mast base repair, and when I opened it the water came pouring out. The hatch itself is definitely watertight (no water got out when the boat was the right way up!). Does anyone have any idea how the water gets in, in this quantity? I can't see any cracks or gaps. And as it's dry in normal use, there must be a gap higher up so that it's only an issue when capsized. Does anyone have any ideas at all? I'm now totally baffled on this one! Only think I can think of is whether there is a gap under where the thwart attaches?

Jonathan Daniel