You're right, our Baba-30 has a divided chain locker, so that the two
anchors can have their rodes and chain flaked nicely on either side. I think
you've got a good idea though - we can build up the side (port) that has no
drain, epoxy the heck out of it, and drill a hole to drain to the other side
(starboard) where a working drain hole with unleaking pipe all the way down
to the bilge exists. What a job, but it's better than what we are going
through right now.

For those of you with windlasses, do you have some kind of cover over the
windlass to keep water out? Ours is a Quick windlass, which works absolutely
GREAT, we love it, but this problem seemed to start happening a few months
after we installed the windlass. Maybe we also need someone to fashion a
cover to plug up securely the hole where the chain goes in? The windlass
sits flush with the deck on the anchor well, which is good for the fair lead
into the chain locker, but maybe that's a problem too?

On 4/20/07, Shane Wilson <vermeerasia@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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