Phantom Driver
Member
Hi All-
I'm a new sailing kind of guy and I bought a Phantom 14. Its been great sailing but I have a couple of questions. I have found that the boat takes on some water. I see it dripping out of the bailer and to a lesser degree, out of the daggerboard opening. It actually seeps into the cockpit and I've just been toweling it out. After sailing yesterday, I took the plug out from below the handle at the bow, turned it over and it dumped out a fair amount of water. Is this a major deal? I hadn't emptied it before sailing yesterday so it may have been accumulating. Could it be the bailer?
Second, I can see where the previous owner had done some repair where the deck and hull meet. There are places where that's not water tight. Could that be the source of the water? How is the best way to repair this? He had used something like an epoxy and the covered it with a decorative vinyl strip around the whole boat which looked ok but was likely to add some water tightness.
Thanks in advance for your advice!
I'm a new sailing kind of guy and I bought a Phantom 14. Its been great sailing but I have a couple of questions. I have found that the boat takes on some water. I see it dripping out of the bailer and to a lesser degree, out of the daggerboard opening. It actually seeps into the cockpit and I've just been toweling it out. After sailing yesterday, I took the plug out from below the handle at the bow, turned it over and it dumped out a fair amount of water. Is this a major deal? I hadn't emptied it before sailing yesterday so it may have been accumulating. Could it be the bailer?
Second, I can see where the previous owner had done some repair where the deck and hull meet. There are places where that's not water tight. Could that be the source of the water? How is the best way to repair this? He had used something like an epoxy and the covered it with a decorative vinyl strip around the whole boat which looked ok but was likely to add some water tightness.
Thanks in advance for your advice!