If you are having the volume of water you have described accumulating
each day you should be able to see the leak.  I would bail and then
spong out the leak and remove every floorboard or access panel you can
so that you can see the trickles of water coming in.  All of this is
assuming that it has not been raining where you are the past week.
 
The keel moves a lot when sailing and most keel bolts do seem to loosen
with time.  Our first boat had water in bilge by middle of season and I
sponged out the bilge only to notoce the water was seeping in around one
keel bolt.  I bought the appropirate sized sockets and tightened all the
bolts while in the water and the leak stopped.  On haulout at end of
season we notciced there was play in the keel and after that dropped and
rebedded the keel.
 
On our next boat we accumulated water again.  this time it was from
rainwater and leaks and around mast etc ... many many hours worth of
rebedding everything and the boat is dry.
 
Hopefully the 35-3 allows you to see the inside of the hull aft of that
stringer so you can see where the water is coming from.

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From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Erik
Hillenmeyer
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 12:00 PM
To: dwight veinot; cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Subject: Re: Stus-List 35-3 Leak


I've definitely ruled that out and yes, the stern section is bone dry.
Also water tanks were never filled and all thru hulls appear perfectly
sealed.  This water accumulates after a day on the can, without running
the engine or sailing.
 
Erik Hillenmeyer
C&C 35 MKIII, Slapshot
Chicago, IL

From: dwight veinot <dwightvei...@hfx.eastlink.ca>
To: 'Erik Hillenmeyer' <erik_hawk...@yahoo.com>; cnc-list@cnc-list.com 
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 9:53 AM
Subject: RE: Stus-List 35-3 Leak


Are you sure it's not the prop shaft stuffing box that is leaking?  You
said the stern section was dry which would indicate it's not the
stuffing box but just saying in case.   Sometimes a stuffing box will
take time in the water to swell after long winter storage.
 
Dwight Veinot
C&C 35 MKII, Alianna
Head of St. Margaret's Bay, NS
 
From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Erik
Hillenmeyer
Sent: May 21, 2013 11:22 AM
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Subject: Re: Stus-List 35-3 Leak
 
The previous owner says the bilge was dry the last season he had it in
the water.  I know him well and trust him that he doesn't recall a
grouding either.  I know I haven't grounded it in the week I've had it
in the water...  I'm wondering what happened in those 18 months on the
hard to create leak of this size as soon as I launch when he saw nothing
his last season with it?  
 
   
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