[C38] scuppers, rudder post, and steering quadrant

[Don Strong]

Dan
The scuppers, rudder post, and steering quadrant appear identical to 
those on Discreet Charm, C38#50 1980.  We replaced one scupper with a 
jury rig and repaired the others. We have replaced the stuffing in the 
rudder post gland.  With 4 people in the cockpit and 3/4 throttle, the 
stern squats and water enters the cockpit through the scuppers. It will 
also enter the cockpit during a hard saiI.  I have rubber plugs to seal 
the scuppers under these conditions.
Regards, Don

On 5/28/11 10:44 AM, dmills3 at comcast.net wrote:
> After reading several responses from other threads about the access 
> holes and not all C38's have the same holes I have decided to post 
> mine to compare to others. Here are the access cutouts on my C38 #108. 
> Pictures #902 port sail locker shelf where an Espar heater was, 903 
> access cover in sail locker, 904 water heater from port side, 905 
> cutout in qtr berth, 910 water heater removed through qtr berth, 909 
> muffler to right and shelf under sail locker where I think Tom T. and 
> others have installed a starter battery after cutting out part of the 
> sail locker floor, 906 looking aft at leaking strbd scupper, 907 port 
> scupper and 915 the panel for the qtr berth.
> With the water heater removed (not too hard of a job as others have 
> also said) I believe the access to the stern will be pretty good.
> On a previous thread about the Mysterious stuffing box behavior I 
> thought I had a rudder post leaking issue and now I think it was my 
> scupper that was letting in all the water. After fixing the scuppers I 
> plan on a hard sail with lots of weight aft to see how much the rudder 
> post leaks. It looks pretty good in the picture. You can see stain 
> lines from the scuppers that tell they were leaking.
> Originally I was going to do the big cutout of the sail locker floor 
> but now I may do just the small one to put the starter battery on that 
> little shelf. Also I plan to put the refrigeration unit at the forward 
> end of the sail locker.
> Dan #108
>
>
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-- 
Donald R. Strong
Professor
Dept. of Evolution and Ecology
University of California, Davis 95616

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