The Panda 40's have a different set up it appears, with a single, undivided
chain locker and a single drain hole in the bottom of the locker. I assume
your's is divided with a partition down the middle?

Speaking from a 40 model perspective, one thing to check would be the
windlass bolts. Are these through-bolted through the bowsprit into the
chain locker? If so, if the bolts were NOT well-bedded and sealed upon
installation water will run under the windlass and down the bolt holes.
Rebed these and you can also try running a bead of sealant around the base
of the windlass.

In the chain locker itself, can you drill limber(drain) holes in the base to
the partition to allow water to flow and drain from the port side to the
strbrd side?

You might also get some good epoxy (West Systems is good), clean and prep
the bottom of the chain locker, pour a layer of unthickened epoxy in to seal
the bottom (cap the drain pipe first of course) and then mix a batch of
thickened epoxy and seal up all the edges and areas of possible water egress
a least a foot up from the base. I would see no reason why a single drain
pipe can't serve a divided chain locker, provided the proper drain holes are
there.

Good Luck,

Shane Wilson
Panda 40 - Muse
Port Townsend, WA

>From: "Debra Axness" <debonair1@gmail.com>
>Reply-To: baba-l@ballreich.net
>To: "Baba, Panda and Tashiba" <baba-l@ballreich.net>
>Subject: [Baba-L] Anchor Locker not draining on Baba-30 - Part 2
>Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:18:42 -0400
>
>Hello all, we have a continuing problem with our anchor locker. I posted a
>month or two ago and got some helpful suggestions on what to look for. We
>have a 1985 Baba-30, and have sailed her many miles in all sorts of
>conditions, and just recently have developed a problem with water leaking
>all the way down under the V-berth, down under the cabin sole, and into the
>bilge area under the engine, whenever we get any seas at all. We did add a
>windlass last year, and anchor chain, to the starboard side of the anchor
>pulpit.
>It's really distressing - if we beat into any kind of head winds, even 10
>or
>15 knots, with any waves at all over the bow, we are getting enough water
>in
>to pump the bilge every hour or two. So it's become issue # 1 on our list.
>- The water is pooling on the port side of the anchor locker; there is a
>drain hole on the bottom of the anchor locker on the starboard side, but
>NONE on the port side. So the divided anchor locker has water standing in
>the bottom on the port side which seeps down and finds its way into the
>bilge, past anything stowed in the V-berth and getting all that wet. The
>starboard side appears to all work OK, with the long fiberglassed-in pipe
>intact, for drips that find their way into the starboard side. We have also
>determined that the large anchor locker drain (which is a Y- configuration
>to a thru-hull) works just fine with no leaks. This port side is a real
>mystery though - and we wonder how we were ever able to go into head winds.
>We have seen some real weather offshore in this boat - even since the
>windlass and chain has been installed. We beat into 40-knot head winds for
>a couple of days in June (another story :-) before we turned around and
>headed back, and we didn't have any problems then.
>So far, what we have been doing is stuffing plastic bags in the holes - on
>the port side, into the anchor hawse pipe, which a small hole feeding to
>the
>anchor rode exists, and on the starboard side, into the windlass.
>- Is there supposed to be a drain hole on the port side? Are we looking at
>a
>design flaw that will need to be corrected at a haul-out? Has anyone seen
>this kind of problem? Any other solutions or stop gaps we could do, to keep
>us moving? We are still hoping to get to Trinidad by July or August for a
>haul out and bottom job, but are afraid that we'll have to haul in the DR
>or
>Puerto Rico to fix this. We're in the Exumas now, with only this black
>cloud
>over our otherwise sunny skies.
>
>Thanks a lot to the net,
>Debby and Larry on Debonair

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