Comments on: Is your boat watertight? http://www.anderswallin.net/2007/09/is-your-boat-watertight/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:14:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Val Provoost http://www.anderswallin.net/2007/09/is-your-boat-watertight/#comment-21888 Val Provoost Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:47:04 +0000 http://www.anderswallin.net/2007/09/is-your-boat-watertight/#comment-21888 I havent tried this on a radio boat yet but if used carefully I cant see that it wouldnt work. We used to pressure test Fireballs and 420 buoyancy tanks on the factory by lowering the pressure in the tank with a hand bilge pump suitable attached and then took a pair of adapted earmuffs with a length of fairly small bore plastic tubing sealed into one and went round the boat listening. This has the advantage of being a dry method and also when you hear the leak whistling away you can introduce resin at the point of origin and see it being drawn into the gap. The boat never gets wet andthe resin cant go anywhere but where it is needed! Of course gross leaks you can hear with the naked ear (so to speak!) I havent tried this on a radio boat yet but if used carefully I cant see that it wouldnt work. We used to pressure test Fireballs and 420 buoyancy tanks on the factory by lowering the pressure in the tank with a hand bilge pump suitable attached and then took a pair of adapted earmuffs with a length of fairly small bore plastic tubing sealed into one and went round the boat listening. This has the advantage of being a dry method and also when you hear the leak whistling away you can introduce resin at the point of origin and see it being drawn into the gap. The boat never gets wet andthe resin cant go anywhere but where it is needed! Of course gross leaks you can hear with the naked ear (so to speak!)

]]> By: Barry Fox http://www.anderswallin.net/2007/09/is-your-boat-watertight/#comment-21882 Barry Fox Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:01:43 +0000 http://www.anderswallin.net/2007/09/is-your-boat-watertight/#comment-21882 Good one Anders. Simple and effective. I recently was helping someone with a boat that was leaking but where we were quite sure it wasn't hull surface or deck joint. It was also leaking in fairly mild conditions so it wasn't from breaking through big water or being blown over. I used some water with food dye in it and poured some in the mast tube and presto there was the leak. Plugged it up and the boat is dry -Barry Good one Anders. Simple and effective. I recently was helping someone with a boat that was leaking but where we were quite sure it wasn’t hull surface or deck joint. It was also leaking in fairly mild conditions so it wasn’t from breaking through big water or being blown over. I used some water with food dye in it and poured some in the mast tube and presto there was the leak. Plugged it up and the boat is dry

-Barry

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