[C320-list] Another dead reefer

[Graeme Clark]

Doug
Having just replaced mine I had a good look as I sat on the bottom of the locker and worked away!

My old compressor unit rusted from the bottom up. Clearly whatever water was getting to it was on the wooden shelf which the unit is screwed down to

My propane locker seal is intact and doesn’t leak but there IS a way for any water to run through it alongside the gas hose. That then drips off the hose, runs down the side of the hulk and ends up on the shelf

Also I am convinced (still) that most water I feeds ocurrs when we are sluicing down the cockpit area with buckets of water after a scrub and clean. The channels around the locker lid cannot cope with that volume of water

As we keep our boat on a mooring not in a marina we can’t wash down with a hose but instead haul up a bucket of water to throw over the decks etc!

I intend to make a detachable vertical partition to fit on the port side of the locker as a “spray diverted” to channel any water that gets in past the shelf

Graeme
#366
1996

Sent from my phone. Excuse typos! 

> On 13 Aug 2020, at 02:08, Doug Treff <doug at treff.us> wrote:
> 
> Hello all, 
> 
> My fridge died this week. Rusted away. If you haven't peeked into the lazarette locker and inspected yours lately, you might want to.
> 
> Some have said that the propane locker might need re-bedding and is leaking water on it. I'll be tackling that job first. I do seem to have a leak somewhere that I discovered after Hurricane Isaias. Water is coming into my aft berth on the port side. Dripping down through the horizontal wood strip that runs along that wall of the berth.  Never saw it prior to the storm. I suspect it's the propane locker.
> 
> Pictures in the Facebook group if you want to see. 
> 
> 24 years old, 1996 Hull 350. Not bad longevity, really.
> 
> --
> Doug Treff
> doug at treff.us