Thank you!
So there's this little bronze pipe in the cockpit well at the helm on the port side, forward corner of the well. It really looks like a factory installation to me. THAT'S where the water in my bilge has been coming from. ANY water in the cockpit goes to the well and that little bronze pipe is the lowest point. It goes to an inline electric pump behind the battery locker (manual, I'd guess)with a hose proceeding from there, under the engine and up to mid-bilge.
I'm thinking plugging everything in the cockpit well except the 2 scuppers and run the pumps overboard through the transom port and starboard - out of the way of the planned Cape Horn gear. Maybe high on the topsides aft.
Oh, and custom (small but fancy) LP locker in STBD cockpit locker is coming out and can will go (somehow) to radar arch (coming some day from New Jersey - Atlantic Towers; but it's been six days so far since they shipped it, and it's now 2 hours north of the factory in Meriden CT after going to PA, then 2 more locations in NJ; at that rate, some time in July). The overboard through hull should be below the bottom of the locker. It's obviously a professional installation (like a lot of the stuff), but it ain't below the bottom of the locker. The thru hull is centered on the transom at the bottom of the wineglass. After several years on the hard, I can still smell LP in the locker. If the locker went any higher up, you probably wouldn't be able to get the little LP can in it. Pricey install, too, I'll bet. Like the huge new water heater aft of the engine. Before I hang a 20#er off the arch or pushpit, I'll look at putting this LP locker in the lazarette maybe, but the tank is awful small. Gas is gas, and 1 or 2 20# tanks is better than a bunch of little ones and take up less space.
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