My A4 is fresh water cooled . If you have Anti Freeze in your motor . I am 
guessing that it is a closed system . You can pressure test your engine. There 
should be a heat exchanger on the engine . There is a sump under your mast step 
on the 30 - 1 also . The antifreeze may be coming from there from a previous 
spill 

Joseph Bognar 
1979 C&C 30 MK 1 
In Luff Again 11

Sent from Joe Bognar


> On Jan 29, 2016, at 1:59 PM, Ryan Doyle via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Joe and Joel - thank you guys.  Apologies, I was on "digest mode", so I 
> didn't see your responses until now.  I know it's engine coolant because as 
> Joe said - "nothing else on the boat looks like it".  Joel, I have a feeling 
> you're right about the source.  I think there was coolant in the aft part of 
> my bilge - either it was spilled or the previous owner intentionally put it 
> down there, and when it rains hard it's being pushed into the sump.  If this 
> is the case, I'm just surprised that it's retaining it's brilliant 
> fluorescent green color after being watered diluted so much.  It's very 
> green.  Looks the same as what's in the reservoir.
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Ryan Doyle <ryanpdo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Replying to my own thread again here..  I've read a few times online that 
>> people sometimes add antifreeze to a wet bilge during the winter.  Now I'm 
>> wondering if there is some residual antifreeze left in the aft portion of my 
>> bilge from the previous owner (I bought the boat in Oct), and it's being 
>> mixed with some rainwater and ending up down there.
>> 
>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Ryan Doyle <ryanpdo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I forgot to give the details on my boat - She's a 1976 30 mki and she's 
>>> winterized and up on stands.
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Ryan Doyle <ryanpdo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hey everyone, 
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you for the responses last week about my tiller - which I went out 
>>>> to observe/fix today and then got distracted by another issue - c'est la 
>>>> vie.
>>>> 
>>>> Sometimes after heavy precipitation I find engine coolant in my bilge.  
>>>> This ONLY happens after heavy precip - like last week here in NYC. 
>>>> 
>>>> I inspected the cooling system plumbing connections and hoses on my A4 and 
>>>> I've looked over the engine itself, there are no leaks I can see.  Also, 
>>>> the level of coolant in the engine's reservoir has remained constant for 
>>>> months.  
>>>> 
>>>> If it was leaking from the motor, the level in the reservoir would be 
>>>> going down, right?  That said, the engine is winterized, so the water pump 
>>>> hasn't spun since October.
>>>> 
>>>> The fact that it only happens after it rains is really confounding me too. 
>>>>  A constant leak from the engine would steadily fill my bilge no matter 
>>>> what the weather was, right?  The water system on the boat is winterized 
>>>> with pink antifreeze, so it's not that.
>>>> 
>>>> Any thoughts?  Thanks in advance.
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