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Dauntless Award
- Joined
- Jan 10, 2013
- Messages
- 2,820
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Dauntless
- Vessel Make
- Kadey Krogen 42 - 148
And the guilty party is the fuel vent.
The worn "O" rings on the filler caps have been exonerated. And while forced into retirement, they will have their past records expunged.
Since i had most of the stuff cleared out of the Engine room, I finally had the ability and the will to crawl back there behind the fuel tanks and take a look see.
Mostly, good news, very good news, in that there are spider webs and no sign that the top of the fuel tank has ever been wet, from water for fuel.
The vent hose and fitting look like new.
The boat was clearly very well maintained before it became Dauntless.
Now, the bad news, only bad in the sense that i see no easy solution at this time, but I'm sure someone will suggest something that I'll end up doing. The vent hose goes straight up and out the side at the deck level, which is only about a foot above the top of the tank.
The problem as I see it, is that I had wanted to lengthen the hose and put a large loop in it.
(By the way, I think it was Marty or maybe Jim, who first gave me the heads up that this is what I would find).
So, with the boat heeled over so much, chug a lug as we use to say in the dorms:lol:
Which would certainly explain how I got so much water (8-10 gal) in that lee tank.
The worn "O" rings on the filler caps have been exonerated. And while forced into retirement, they will have their past records expunged.
Since i had most of the stuff cleared out of the Engine room, I finally had the ability and the will to crawl back there behind the fuel tanks and take a look see.
Mostly, good news, very good news, in that there are spider webs and no sign that the top of the fuel tank has ever been wet, from water for fuel.
The vent hose and fitting look like new.
The boat was clearly very well maintained before it became Dauntless.
Now, the bad news, only bad in the sense that i see no easy solution at this time, but I'm sure someone will suggest something that I'll end up doing. The vent hose goes straight up and out the side at the deck level, which is only about a foot above the top of the tank.
The problem as I see it, is that I had wanted to lengthen the hose and put a large loop in it.
(By the way, I think it was Marty or maybe Jim, who first gave me the heads up that this is what I would find).
So, with the boat heeled over so much, chug a lug as we use to say in the dorms:lol:
Which would certainly explain how I got so much water (8-10 gal) in that lee tank.