Water Leak Aft Bilge Under Bed

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Re: Water Leak Aft Bilge Under Bed

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If you find the leak is from the ballast tank thru the inner hull, recommend you contact the factory - this is a latent defect that should not be subject to warrantee time periods. They need to do something to make this right. Solution may be as simple as a few layers of fiberglass on the inside of the inner hull. They also need to know this happened so they can investigate why.

Personal opinion - this failure would be really unlikely from manufacturing since probably multiple layers of glass here - any chance this was the site of damage (cannot picture how).
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Re: Water Leak Aft Bilge Under Bed

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Jim...if you come to your boat in my area give me a EM...would be happy to give it a look over

I'm thinking it has to be from ballast fill area...but that looks pretty skinny on the factory website.

If you can't see danger to the hull below, it as to be coming from the top of the ballast tank.
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vizwhiz wrote: Red food coloring or something else might also work similarly for a visual,
BLUE! I meant BLUE food coloring! :wink: :macm:
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Jim...high res line drawings of the :macm: in this thread..

http://www.macgregorsailors.com/forum/v ... =9&t=21083

It looks like your leak is top of the ballast tank based on these and your described position...
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