[IAN BRYCE]

Thanks for the prompt reply. I bought Capella around 18 months ago but unfortunately illness has stopped me from working on her until now.  I am a carpenter joiner with electrical papers so I feel I am equipped enough to make a job of her. My Achilles heel is that I do not know anything about yachts.

There is a leak from a yet unidentified source which culminates wit a pool of water outside the head. The last owner had a system whereby the areas around the keel bolts  had bilge pumps which fed into the area around the head door and was then picked up and pumped up the tube going out under the engine. I cleaned out the bolt areas and put a automatic pump outside the head which kept things under control till I find the leak.

Now the pump seems to push the water up the tube and it comes back down again.  I did seem to work for several weeks and seemed to stop when I cleaned out the scuppers in the cockpit. Hence me putting two and two together and getting five,

I have not really lifted all the panels in the cockpit as yet to see what’s what.

Does this help

Ian

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