[C38] scuppers, rudder post, and steering quadrant

[S Orton]

Dan,  My small starter battery fits very nicely under the rear quarter berth between the fwd end of the fuel tank and the fwd bulkhead of the quarter berth, I also mounted the rotory battery switch on this bulkhead.
Cheers, Steve O, Santa Susanna (304)
 


Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 14:39:34 -0700
From: drstrong at ucdavis.edu
To: listserve at catalina38.org
Subject: Re: [C38] scuppers, rudder post, and steering quadrant


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
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