[C38] rudder shaft stuffing box

[Don Strong]

You can see the rudder stuffing box by lifting the lazrette hatch at the 
stern and sticking your head down to look forward.

On 7/7/16 8:36 PM, 1derful at comcast.net wrote:
> is there a stuffing box on the rudder shaft?
> where is it?
> Patrick
>
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> *From: *"Patrick Harpole" <1derful at comcast.net>
> *To: *"Catalina" <listserve at catalina38.org>
> *Sent: *Thursday, July 7, 2016 6:51:07 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [C38] water in my bilge
>
> Maybe wave action is it. Two days ago I motored through San Pablo Bay. 
> 3 hours of 35 knot winds and 6 foot swells.
> 3 sailboats capsized.
> Coast Guard had a busy day
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 7, 2016, at 2:31 PM, Steve Smolinske 
> <SSmolinske at rainierrubber.com <mailto:SSmolinske at rainierrubber.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Check your stuffing box on the rudder and the shaft,  depending on
>     the type of seal you have. If you have a dripless shaft seal it
>     might have become loose and slid out of the compressed state. On
>     the rudder if your subject to wave action at your mooring every
>     time the stern goes up and down it could be taking on water from
>     there as well.   Rain almost could be suspect, not sure where it
>     comes in but after a good rain my bilge is full.
>
>     *From:*Listserve [mailto:listserve-bounces at catalina38.org] *On
>     Behalf Of *William Knowles
>     *Sent:* Thursday, July 07, 2016 2:29 PM
>     *To:* Catalina 38 Listserve
>     *Subject:* Re: [C38] water in my bilge
>
>     If you use blue stuff in the holding tank should show up in bilge
>     if holding tank is leaking, there are many through hulls found one
>     under settee area hooked to nothing.
>
>     On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:51 AM, <1derful at comcast.net
>     <mailto:1derful at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     My bilge has been filling up with water rather quickly.
>
>     The area in the head fills up to.
>
>     Stuffing box appears OK.
>
>     I closed through hull fitting.
>
>     Water has the smell of urine...a bit.
>
>     Any thoughts of where the water's coming from.
>
>     Holding tank?
>
>     I don't want Blue Eyes to become a "Yellow Submarine"
>
>     Patrick
>
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Donald R. Strong
Professor,
Department of Evolution and Ecology
and
The Bodega Marine Laboratory,
University of California, Davis,
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