by tattoo on Fri Jun 15, 2012 1:43 pm
Check out my posting of 2/9/12 about "Lazerette Floors & Leaking Hatches." Even with a cockpit cover enough rain water comes in around the gallows supports to leak an inch or so after a heavy rain. I haven't raised the hatches [yet] with a bezel, but I'll do it this winter and I'll make it out of 1/2" plywood. Hopefully, that will take care of it.
My bilges are bone dry except for rain water thru the companionway hatch left open. Anyway, it's rain water and not lake, river, or sea water. But the environmentalists don't know the difference. The PocketShip hull is water tight and there is no prop shaft thru a leaky stuffing box. And I've been in some pretty rough water and as yet haven't had a wave over the coaming. Even if a wave came over the side, it would drain overboard and not into the bilge.
Pete McCrary
Pete McCrary, launched Tattoo Oct '10.