[C320-list] Water leak

[Dennis Harris]

Unless you shut off the valve to the water pump (under aft cabin bunk on my 
boat) from the aft tank, the water from the forward tank will drain to the 
after tank.  The opening ports in top of these tanks don't seal very good, 
and aft tank, already being full,  will overflow into bilge.  Also, in use, 
pump down forward tank first, switch valve to forward tank off, open tank to 
aft tank and continue pumping.  If you leave an empty tank valve open while 
trying to pump from the other one that has water, you are likely to get an 
air lock in pump and get no flow.

Dennis Harris C320 #694

-----Original Message----- 
From: dprudden at comcast.net
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 6:49 PM
To: C320-list at catalina320.com
Subject: [C320-list] Water leak

Ok, the new (to me) boat arrived today on a trailer, and gets relaunched 
tomorrow morning. I topped off the water tanks, and the forward tank must 
have been about empty, the stern tank taking very little. Here's the 
problem-the bilge keeps slowly filling up, kicking on the bilge pump. I can 
see a slow trickle entering the art end if the bilge....any ideas?????

Thanks for any suggestions