Any boat has deck leaks.
Every boat has deck leaks.
Any boat that doesn't currently have deck leaks, is just between leaks.
To date, I have been focusing on the joint between the mast boot and the mast. At the next opportunity (Friday morning, if it isn't raining) I will redirect my efforts to the deck ring where the bottom of the boot attaches. I will pull up the bottom of the mast boot and check to see if the deck ring itself is serving as the entry point.
That's the plan.
If it doesn't rain.
Life on a boat is like this.
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Astonishing that you've been leak-free for several years. My boat probably wasn't leak-free when it was new, never mind now.
Rick
I wonder what would happen if you used a strip of butyl under the clamp on the boot?
Our mast boot is about the only thing that DOESN'T leak on the boat...right now I'd trade you your mast leak for my hatch leaks.
Deb
S/V Kintala
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Rick -
Well, that's what I get for mentioning it...
bob
Deb -
So far as I can tell at this point, the water is not coming in where the boot joins the mast. I now suspect the ring on the deck that the bottom of the boot attaches to, but I need two things to do a good job of inspection there: daylight and an end to the rain. It is pouring right now. Once the rains start in Seattle, they are SERIOUS.
bob
Deb -
Our hatches are probably pretty primitive in design by comparison to yours. But they do not leak...
I've never understood why the modern hatches leak. But then I don't understand why my mast boot leaks either...
bob
Fantastic job on the hatch rehab, btw. Stunning, really.
Rick
Thanks Rick!
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