Leakage

Re-caulking the aft and cockpit cabin decks fixed a number of the remaining small leaks we had not nailed, but the three main ones continued. During the week I injected fluid in through the leaks  in our cabin and Emma's cabin (still known to some as Jonathan's cabin) and found it exiting outside in places you would never have imagined - unless you are a traditional timber shipwright, in which case I bet you can imagine it coming out just about anywhere. The source of leaks having been identified, being the result of old termite damage, I have since pumped them full of saturating epoxy until it bled outside, and after last nights rain (first in weeks) we had not a drop inside. Fingers crossed...

Emma had a third leak under the deck in her cabin, which thanks to the decks being so dry after a long spell meant that when the rain came it was immediately obviously where it was coming in: a couple of broken seam edges in the caulk about a metre forward of her cabin. The water gets in, tracks back until it finds an opening in the timber joint and comes through. You gotta love traditional teak decks, hours of entertainment...

Cutting out the failed rubber. This should fix the leak (he says hopefully...)