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frog0911
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Initially Posted - 05/10/2004 :  07:25:39  Show Profile
Anyone other than me have a problem with the cockpit lockers filling with water after heavy rains or washing the deck? I do not understand why Catalina did not install drains in the bottoms of the lockers if they were not going to seal them. Is the only option to install a rubber seal or weather stripping around the edges?
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bear
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Response Posted - 05/10/2004 :  07:46:02  Show Profile
I went through this issue a few years back and basically found that if the boat wasn't level while at the dock that the water would not drain properly. I'm talking port to starboard and fore to aft.Also when washing Brandy I generally try and keep large amounts of water from around the cockpit lockers. "Bear" C250 WB ready to go.
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sailgal
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Response Posted - 05/10/2004 :  10:26:21  Show Profile
Drains would have been wonderful, I have a dedicated sponge just for the purpose of ridding that darn water!
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Waterboy
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Response Posted - 05/10/2004 :  11:55:10  Show Profile  Visit Waterboy's Homepage
I've the same problem with, oddly, just the port locker. I've been playing with various weather strippings, the latest of which greatly reduces but does not eliminate the leakage.
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Oscar
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Response Posted - 05/10/2004 :  18:50:03  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
You guys did not read the manual? They are bait wells....

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frog0911
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Response Posted - 05/10/2004 :  21:17:08  Show Profile
My port locker had about 3" of water in it after some big down pours and three washings to get rid of the spiders. The starboard only had about a 1/2 inch in it. It would be very difficult to keep the boat level in my slip with all the smug pots and PWC's running back an forth in front of it.

They must have left that section out of my new manual, but they left a lot of things out of it, like the switch to turn on the stove ignition etc.
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