Internationals: How Dry Are Your Bilges?

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Internationals: How Dry Are Your Bilges?

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The International 10 meter express (not mid cabin) features a hull liner.

These boats have three factory bilges, forward, engine room, aft.

The engine room bilge is isolated, the fwd and aft bilge are "connected" via the common area that connects the two under the liner - between the liner and the hull.

Just want to compare notes with y'all regarding how dry (relatively speaking) your bilges are and how much difference you might see when carrying full tanks of fuel, water, payload, etc.

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Re: Internationals: How Dry Are Your Bilges?

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Is the bilge setup on the sedan the same as the express?
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Re: Internationals: How Dry Are Your Bilges?

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I always seem to have a little water in all 3 bilges. My air conditioner condenser drains into my forward bilge. Except for the forward bilge, there never seems to be enough water to make the pumps run. I think some of the water comes from one of the engine strainers, I think a gasket leaks, I have tighten them but always looks wet.
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Re: Internationals: How Dry Are Your Bilges?

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On my mid cabin, I only get water in the forward bilge (across from the head) from AC condensation. For the past two seasons, I extended the hose and stick it into a Tupperware container when I'm running the AC. Then I empty it once a day. I'll setup a shower sump/pump at some point but this works for now.

The only other place I consistently get water is right at the engine room bulkhead. After fixing everything, I finally figured out its from rainwater running down the bilge exhaust hoses. It took being in the engine room during a heavy rain to figure that out. I made sure my hoses are now positioned to dump the water into the engine side of the stringer and not behind it under the gas tank(s). There's really no where for it to go if it gets trapped there.

I ran a hose from my shower drain pump and now I "vacuum" this out on a pretty regular basis.

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My AC drains into my shower sump. I always have a small amount of water in my forward bilge after a long run.
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Re: Internationals: How Dry Are Your Bilges?

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My forward bilge is the only one that really collects water. Although I have drilled a drain hole through the liner in the lazarette so all of the rain water drains to the forward bilge. The port engine room bilge is dry because the pipe that connects it to the center bilge through the stringer isn't sealed properly. The starboard one is sealed properly and collects some water from the shaft seal after a run. I may make the starboard bilge more like the port bilge so that all of the water heads to the forward bilge. My A/C condensate drain connects to the shower sump.
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If you connect your engine area to the entire bilge, when you get an oil leak, it will migrate all through the boat...
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Re: Internationals: How Dry Are Your Bilges?

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I get a lot of water in the engine/cockpit bilges. I'm working on sealing the hatches where the seats mount so I think that will help a lot.
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