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Just a quick thought.
Does the water stay in your engine when its stopped, or does it drain away? I wonder if it’s water sat in the engine for long periods that’s doing it.
As you say, you would expect all of them to do it.
Hopefully some other people with the same engine will be along with comments.
Sorry I couldn’t help more
Bob
Is your engine seawater cooled or freshwater cooled (i.e. does it have a separate coolant system).
If it’s seawater cooled, then it’s probably just some light rust from the block getting pushed out. If it has a separate coolant system then you shouldn’t see anything like that, as the seawater will only pass through the heat exchanger and then out through the exhaust, and if you have rust in the heat exchanger you have a potentially expensive problem brewing.
I’m in the process of replacing all my striplights and downlights with led units, so will have some spare soon.
I’ll post here when I’ve got the off.
Bob
Oh well, at least you’ll have a shiny new mast and won’t need to get the standing rigging replaced again for ages.
Now that she’s coming off charter, are you brining her back to the UK? I brought mine back from the Caribbean last year after taking it off charter.
I have a 3G Mifi hub too, which I use on the boat. It’s cheaper than paying for the Marina’s wifi, and I’ve got it everywhere I go, rather than just at my home Marina.
No idea about the 34, but on mine they’re all self-drilling, self-tapping screws (aka complete rubbish).
You have a leak.
It could be:- leaking into the engine (blown head gasket?), or leaking into the raw water (heat exchanger). Or it could be expanding past the cap seal and dripping out through the overflow pipe.
First things to check are the header tank cap and seal, and the heat exchanger connections and seals. Next check is to top it up and start the engine with the cap off. If you get bubbles coming up through the coolant, you probably have a head gasket failure.
I went through all of this (ended-up having the head off, pressure testing the heat exchanger, the lot). Turned out to be the seal under the header tank cap, which cost £4. So do the easy and chap things first.
Where are you? If you are Solent-based, let me know and I’d be happy to come and have a quick squint at it for you.
Bob
If the water is getting down between the glass and the seal (or the frame and the seal, then a fool-proof solution is as follows:-
Go to Marine Superstore (Port Solent) and buy a tube of ABROMAST sealant (it’s a non-hardening butyl).
Squidge a line of it around the outside of the hatch and use your finger to push it into the gaps around the seal. Wipe the excess off with white spirit.
Job done. They’ll not leak any more.
Bob
PS. If you find that your hatches or windows start to leak from the foam frame gasket, remove them and re-seat them using this stuff to replace the foam gasket. Done all mine and the boat is now dry as a bone.
Could be hatches and windows. The foam gaskets go hard and start to leak. The solution is to remove them all, clean off all the old foam gasket, and re-bed them using Abromast butyl sealant.
Could also be stantion bases, especially if the boats had a ding (creeping crack sealer is good for this).
Could also be the toerail or hull-deck joint.
Unfortunately it can be difficult to get to the bottom of this problem, it took me a while (I also have a 2003 boat, and could get a bucket-full out of the bilge in a day). I would suggest that you do the hatches and windows first, and see if that sorts it. If not, then start looking at other stuff.
Hope that helps
Bob
PS. Mine was the hatches and windows, which is why I suggest you start there.
