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Thanks Kevin - that is so helpful.  My water tank is to starboard.  I, unfortunately did not read about the longer screw situation until after I had this problem, though it seems to have preceded my purchase (based on the water stain running down the wooden bulkhead).  I may well have a hole in my water tank and the seeming fix with taping the portlight just was coincident with either lack of heeling sufficiently or tank water level lowering enough to no longer leak.  I'll give it a look, but this information makes the leak seem much less mysterious.

Brenda

Kevin, I've been perplexed by the water running into the aft cabin from the vicinity of the water tank, but have not been able to sort it out.  When you say "leak" - do you mean a leak from the water tank or a leak from the deck?  Mine seems to have to do with a leaky port light in the cockpit - this porthole has been minorly leaking into the aft cabin (onto the mattress naturally), but when I put tape over the porthole for that issue it seemed to maybe? solve my leak down the aft bulkhead (though maybe I have not heeled enough to port to test it - I had not known what provoked the water intrusion into the cabin ....).  But honestly that did not make any sense to me.  Yes, I need to rebed that port light, but it sounds like you've been down this road before so I'd love to know what you know about where the water comes from.

Thanks, Brenda

Mine in a similar place was due to failed hose at the Heat exchanger junction (the hose that goes forward to the water pump).

For your needs, you probably need a full-blown dehumidifier (which runs with coils and Freon, like a refrigerator), which will be larger/heavier and perhaps a little cumbersome to put on your galley counter. You'd get these at Home Depot, Best Buy, or other appliance store. They usually have built-in collection pans that hold a gallon or tow (can go about a week), with a punch-out that you can attach a hose to that could go into your bilge if you need more capacity. That is what I would recommend for summer. Probably would fit under your salon table with hose going to the bilge.

This is what I do in Seattle.  I used to leave it on the counter with the sink thru hull open, but then realized that since my bilge is never dry, I may as well run it in there.  I lash it to the mast under the salon table which means I don't have to stash it at all when I go out sailing.  I'm liking this set up.

I was thinking the same as Breaking Away.  When I first got my C34, I was out in 18 knots and decided to go main alone (since that's what I would have done back in the day on my San Juan 24).  I was amazed at how nowhere I was going (hadn't learned to reef it yet, also different from the SJ).  I don't remember looking to see my SOG, but by feel I was just sitting still and maybe drifting slowly to leeward (with any current I may have been standing still as the OP states).  Since then I've gone the genoa only route in a stiff breeze with my I-don't-love-to-heel crew aboard and she balances nicely.

Sorry to hijack the thread, but I'm in a Catalina 34 at Shilshole (86) and would love to know how much new standing rigging would cost me.

My sink is fine, but was loosened by the PO who planned to replace it.  That got me wondering and I don't know why I would replace it with a double sink.  I would think a single bowl would be much more usable as I don't fill the sink at any point for soaking or whatever.  Why go double?

Oh my, so very sorry.

The same thing happened to me even though I have a 110 and the car was foreward.  The PO put some spiffy looking blue sheets on (I believe these are the same ones on Catalina Direct), but I found the older, uglier, but larger diameter sheets in the lazarette and changed them out - I think the blue ones are whippier.  It happened for me when my less experienced crew was having trouble quickly getting the sail trimmed, even in lighter winds than you had so I've been trying to have them backwind the sail before release then quickly sheet home to get into the right rhythm - haven't slapped since but then again, haven't been in 20 knots either.

I don't have a topping lift on my C34 - which confused me bc the last boat I had was a 1974 San Juan 24 and it did have a topping lift.  When we raised the main, we always disconnected the topping lift from the end of the boom and stored it shackled to the backstay until we needed it for either reefing or before lowering the main.  Unfortunately I don't remember exactly how it was stored, but obviously you don't want to lose it up the backstay by pulling the topping lift if it is not secured down.