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Old 21-10-2016, 17:43   #1
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What's behind curtain #1

Helllo again everybody. Before I go cutting and exploring, I was wondering If any one could read the writing or would know what the void in the drawing is in the drawing I have of my boat from sailboat data...here's the link. EASTWARD HO 24 sailboat specifications and details on sailboatdata.com
Just aft of the mast in the bilge this area appears to be open down to the keel. I'm can't determine if this is actually a void or a sump it's to blurry to read the writing. The po did mention he had "some" fiberglass work "added" in the bilge area. There's a boot for a table that looks new. But under that in the place where the diagram shows a could there's a fiberglass box I have a picture posted. If I knock on it it sounds hollow but I'm not sure how deep. Before I start exploring I was wondering if it's common knowledge as to what this area is I can't read the writing in the pic..
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Old 21-10-2016, 17:49   #2
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Re: What's behind curtain #1

Do you have a separate deep bilge sump?

I've known of boats where a PO had filled-in the deep sump to avoid the mess that accumulates down there. Most current owners spent many hours swearing at the PO as they removed the filler to recreate a proper sump for the bilge pump.

Hope that is not the situation in your case.
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Not sure, but is your water tank">fresh water tank there? Hard to tell from the sailboatdata pic but in my boat at least, the fresh water tank is down there aft of the ballast in the keel. In any case personally I wouldn't cut into it unless there was a known problem or some great need to do so.
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Yes it's not my water tank and no there's no separated sump for the bilge. I wanted to make it a water tank is what has raised the question.
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Bulk rum hold...
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That's what I'm hoping to make it rum hold sounds better then water. Wish I could see what that writing is in the data pic. Thinking one of them Milwaukee borscope camera type hobbies drill a hole and hope for the best
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That's what I'm hoping to make it rum hold sounds better then water. Wish I could see what that writing is in the data pic. Thinking one of them Milwaukee borscope camera type hobbies drill a hole and hope for the best
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The area where the illegible writing is, is circumscribed by a solid line. There is a vertical line just about a foot aft of station 5 and a horizontal line leading forward from the top of that vertical line all the way to the profile line. It intersects the profile just under the bulkhead at the forward end of the settees.

This inscribed area is where your 3,000 lbs of lead is. That is the ballast keel. You will note that the compression post for the mast is stepped off on top of this slug of lead. There are sound engineering reasons for doing things this way.

Dollars to doughnuts that if you tap the bottom of the bilge at station 5 it will sound solid rather than hollow.

If you work the volume of the space using the drawing as a guide for taking measurements in the boat you will know whether you've got lead or cast iron for ballast. SailboatData sez the boat has 3K lbs of ballast. Lead weighs 708 lbs per cubic foot, cast Iron about 450 lbs. Therefore 3K lbs of lead will take up a space of 4 1/4 cubic feet. 3K lbs of cast iron will take up a space of 6 2/3 cubic feet.

We can't tell from the drawing if the slug is encapsulated or "bolt on". If you don't see bolts and nuts at the bottom of your bilge, the slug will be encapsulated. Either way, there is no room there for tankage.

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