Stpetelsu64
Active Member
- Jul 23, 2020
- 194
- Boat Info
- 2007 Sea Ray Sundancer 400, Original Stock Electronics
- Engines
- Twin cummins QSB 5.9- 380HO
Hopefully I put this in the right forum. I really need to figure this out. i also posted it on another site
I have a very strange cabin bilge issue and while my boat is in the dealership this week to replace my battery chargers I was going to get them to look at this issue. However they have been known to always find something expensive wrong.
I added 3 pictures below. I have a 2007 Searay Sundancer 40 DA. In pic 1 I am standing by the stairs looking toward the bow bedroom. The bilge nearest the bedroom is where the bow thruster is located. The cable rotted or whatever you want to call it due to saltwater getting in that bilge for years. I started noticing recently when the bow thruster went out. My fault for not paying attention. So now the water seems to get up to about an inch and stop there. When I go on and off plane the water moves toward the back of the boat and an alarm goes off and it bilges out while I am driving it.
The next 2 bilge compartments are higher up and where all the plumbing for the shower runs thru and there is a sump pump. Water rarely gets up this high unless the boat is rocking.
So that brings me to my biggest issue. IN pic 3 you see the bilge by the stairs and it is actually about 2.5 or so inches down from the middle 2 compartments I mentioned. So I wet vacced the water out and by the time I sucked out 3 gallons I come back in and it has risen back to 1.25 inches and sits there for awhile. It may get higher overnight and bilge out but I am in the house so I dont see it happen. But during the day for some reason it sits at that height. So every few days I bilge it out. It never gets high enough to get back to the sump pump because it sits down too low.
So where the heck can this be coming from? I am 99% sure it is salt water due to the finger test taste. Plus I pulled water out and tested it. I have kept my AC off and water pump off and really nothing is on the boat while parked. So I was thinking maybe my water tank but then again it tastes like salt. I dont want to get ripped off. Taking the boat out of water costs 600$ and then who knows what they will do. This has to have been going on for years unnoticed because I hear the bilge going off when I go on and off plane.
Pics are below. Any hints or suggestions would surely be appreciated. My engine bilge is mostly bone dry. A very very slow leak maybe where the depth transducer is.
I have a very strange cabin bilge issue and while my boat is in the dealership this week to replace my battery chargers I was going to get them to look at this issue. However they have been known to always find something expensive wrong.
I added 3 pictures below. I have a 2007 Searay Sundancer 40 DA. In pic 1 I am standing by the stairs looking toward the bow bedroom. The bilge nearest the bedroom is where the bow thruster is located. The cable rotted or whatever you want to call it due to saltwater getting in that bilge for years. I started noticing recently when the bow thruster went out. My fault for not paying attention. So now the water seems to get up to about an inch and stop there. When I go on and off plane the water moves toward the back of the boat and an alarm goes off and it bilges out while I am driving it.
The next 2 bilge compartments are higher up and where all the plumbing for the shower runs thru and there is a sump pump. Water rarely gets up this high unless the boat is rocking.
So that brings me to my biggest issue. IN pic 3 you see the bilge by the stairs and it is actually about 2.5 or so inches down from the middle 2 compartments I mentioned. So I wet vacced the water out and by the time I sucked out 3 gallons I come back in and it has risen back to 1.25 inches and sits there for awhile. It may get higher overnight and bilge out but I am in the house so I dont see it happen. But during the day for some reason it sits at that height. So every few days I bilge it out. It never gets high enough to get back to the sump pump because it sits down too low.
So where the heck can this be coming from? I am 99% sure it is salt water due to the finger test taste. Plus I pulled water out and tested it. I have kept my AC off and water pump off and really nothing is on the boat while parked. So I was thinking maybe my water tank but then again it tastes like salt. I dont want to get ripped off. Taking the boat out of water costs 600$ and then who knows what they will do. This has to have been going on for years unnoticed because I hear the bilge going off when I go on and off plane.
Pics are below. Any hints or suggestions would surely be appreciated. My engine bilge is mostly bone dry. A very very slow leak maybe where the depth transducer is.