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     Gary Hendrickson Rating: N/A |
The cockpit floor is balsa-cored! When I removed the Whale pump for checking and rebuilding this winter, I found the core around its mounting holes to be soaked and soft, especially the two bolt holes off to one side. I found no sealing compound under their screw heads, and the rubber gasket used on the the large center mounting hole wasn't screwed down snug. Had to dig out the soft balsa about 3/4 inch around the central holes, and also drill out and dig out around the two side holes, fill in with thickened epoxy (using a mold-release barrier sheet around the circumference of the large pump-handle hole in the cockpit floor), and then re-drill the 6 screw holes, before I could put the bilge pump back in. Whew! Won't ever get wet again. |
