Posted: September 12 2006 at 16:39 | IP Logged

hi everyone.  this is a great idea and we hope it works.  anyone having water in the aft bildge on the 4050?  if so, where did it come from? just when we think it's fixed, it returns.  most often when we have been in 4-5ft waves.

Posted: November 03 2006 at 11:03 | IP Logged

I'm not sure how similar our boats are, but I have a 2000 3750 aft cabin.  I too get water in my aft bilge - not much, but just enough to annoy the heck out of me.  I checked the rudder seals, shaft logs etc. etc.  Nothing.  Then I decided to check my hot water heater.  Found my cold water inlet fitting was loose and was dripping some.  Fixed that and still had the water.

I was winterizing my hot water heater two weeks ago and had the aft wall hatch open. It was pouring rain outside.  While I was in there, I kept getting dripped on.  It was coming from the joint between my swim platform and the transom wall.  Mine is a pretty wide gap filled with what looks like silicon caulking.  Well, there wasn't a good seal along the entire surface, there were some small "splits" in the caulk.  I filled them in with new caulk and haven't seen a drop since.

Hope that helps.

Posted: November 03 2006 at 13:41 | IP Logged

RFH:

Thanks for the suggestion.  It's definately worth checking out.

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