Dinghy development: Help my RS600 is filling up with water!

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Help my RS600 is filling up with water!

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Topic: Help my RS600 is filling up with water!

Posted By: timnoyce
Subject: Help my RS600 is filling up with water!
Date Posted: 24 Jan 05 at 12:06pm

I've recently borrowed an RS600 from a mate and have taken it out a couple of times and spent a fair amount of my time swimming rather than sailing! After i had packed it away i took the bung out to check for any water but nothing came out even though i heard a sloshing from the bow. There seems to be a fair amount of water inside but i can't see any way of accessing it!

Does anyone know of a similar problem or know how i could sort it out?

Cheers

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Posted By: Contender443
Date Posted: 24 Jan 05 at 12:30pm

I remember seeing a RS600 sailor lifting his boat completely vertical to empty it of water. It can be done by one person as the boat is relatively light.

Is there some sort of bulkhead that means you need to do this - perhaps a RS 600 sailor could answer this.

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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 24 Jan 05 at 1:24pm

One thing to check on how it might be getting in. A mate has an oldish RS400, and we happened to notice the other day that the hatches into the buoyancy tanks were falling off! The surrounds are pop riveted onto the deck moulding, and the rivets are corroding away - one of the hatches is now only held on by two rivets and isn't remotely waterproof. And because its the surround, not the hatch, the leak bypasses the O ring.

Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 26 Jan 05 at 5:32pm

I,ve seen several 600 sailors standing their boats on the transom to empty them! It's easy enough to do on your own.

Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 27 Jan 05 at 1:47am

excellent, cheers for the help guys. I'll have to give it a go when i'm up the club on saturday.

Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 27 Jan 05 at 1:22pm

From a 600 sailor.

There is a bulkhead which gets in the way when emptying water from the hull and this is the reason for tipping the boat up on end.

If you have a lot of water coming in the most problematic area is the back of the dagger board case. I suggest you check for wear and cracks there.

Enjoy the boat
cheers

Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 02 Feb 05 at 9:58am

Sorted. Tipped it up as suggested and the water came flowing out. The daggerboard case is the problem so i'll have to get the gelcoat out to fix that!

Cheers for the help.

Posted By: Chris Noble
Date Posted: 05 Feb 05 at 6:58pm

this seems to be a common problem with the hatches on all RS's as ive heard of it a few times now and it happened to one of our 200's, the hatch just came off as all the rives corroded away, whats more is that there was so silicon or anything on the underside of the hatch base itself either.

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