[Paddlewise] Chasing Leaks

Dave Kruger wrote:
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>   ...Some water appeared forward ... more or less at the position
>of the screws which hold my rudder pedal track on that side.
>
>Tightened all those screws and tried the same water injection, same site, and
>could not see any more water inside.  So I put a couple gallons inside the yak
>and rolled it back and forth over the areas I had just tested and looked for
>water outside the hull.  None.  Have I fixed this thing?
>
>Anybody had this problem on an Eddyline ... and identified the source of the
>leak?

Dave -- This probably won't be much (if any) help, but for what it's worth, I
also have an Eddyline (an old Calypso) with EXACTLY the same symptoms you
describe.   Except it sounds like mine leaks a little worse.  I also determined
that the screws holding the rudder pedal track were leaking, so I put rubber
gaskets under them which seemed to stop that leak, but merely reduced the
problem.  I've put it up on saw horses and it seems tight as a drum.  The path
that water has to follow to get in thru the rudder cables seems so long and
tight that I don't see how this could account for much more than a few
teaspoons.  I more or less (by process of elimination) concluded it had to be my
spray skirt and resigned myself to that, but if you can find a definitive answer
I'd be very interested in hearing it!

Evan
Woodinville, WA


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