I understand the location now, it’s the partition that separated the battery “shelf” from the storage area under the quarter berth. Right?
I think I’d agree with others who have suggested the problem is likely to be battery fumes and not water penetration. Air circulation outboard of the batteries is probably problematic. All batteries outgas (yes, even AGMs) to some degree when charging. Some batteries outgas a lot when overcharged. And given the age of a LF38 you are probably looking at an artifact that dates from the era of lead acid batteries and ferro-resonant chargers that would frequently boil all the water out of a battery over the summer. The rotted panel seems to have three purposes: 1) Keep engine heat, fumes, and noise out of the quarter berth 2) Keep stuff in the storage area out of the engine space 3) Support the base panel of the quarter berth Maybe the easiest and quickest thing to do would be to use a rotozip to cut out the rotted areas and then sister an appropriately shaped piece of 3/8” starboard to the locker side of the partition to satisfy 1, 2, and 3 ? Rick Brass Washington, NC From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Patrick Davin via CnC-List Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 10:37 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Patrick Davin <jda...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List Rot in non-structural bulkhead - thoughts? @Rick, there is an access panel from the quarterberth, but that panel is vertically above the area where the issue is, and it juts out about 8" - in other words, the battery cubby is inset / receded under the quarterberth. Hard to describe. So to see the wall rot from there I'd have to stick my head into the engine space, push my head down and try to bend my neck around the corner to get at the wall. I think it will be much easier to go in through the below-quarterberth storage, but I'll probably have to remove the quarterberth base panel to do that. Sorry the pictures aren't great, it's a tough area to photograph. I should've taken a video with my GoPro.
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