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I just bought my C34, hull number 1312, and noticed the same thing.  Also, water collects in the channels on each side of the companion way door.  Seems as though there is a design flaw or manufacturing flaw with the balance of the decks.  Even with a full aft water tank, it does not help.  However, if I stand on the boat near the wheel when first boarding, the water in the channels will drain.  I always need to warn others not to stand too close to the door, unless I want them to get wet.

I bought a NAVMAN 5500 this winter, and have been using it for about  a month now.  I love it.  keep my racing marks displayed, and it works great to visualize the course.  Only problem is sometimes the buttons stick.

Sounds like this may be just a bad design, or a fabrication error on some of the vessels.  I will post when I think of a simple (?) fix.

bob s

Thanks all for your thoughts.  Lots of them, but I don't think I am much closer to understanding the source of the problem.  I will try flooding the outside with a hose to see if I can find the leak.  In the meantime, I am off to Rome and will return in a week.  Then I launch.

bob

It is on land, but tilted back so water in the cockpit drains aft.  The same problem occurs when the boat is in the water.  When I step on the boat, especially near the back, the water will flow back.

thanks.

bob s

There seems to be a leak in my 1996 C34 (hull 1312).  After a rain (or perhaps a snow), I find a puddle of water inside the compartment below the starboard settee (after corner near boat center line).  I observed this before and thought it might be coming from the main starboard chain plate.  Last week I re caulked the chain plate, but found water again this week (snowed, then melted, earlier this week).  I could not find any evidence of drips, water marks, etc by or near the chain plate, the hatch window near and above the settee, or anywhere else above the settee.  (The cushions are removed and the settee board has been removed).  There was no water in the bilge nor anywhere else I could see.  The only way I can see that water can enter the settee compartment is from dripping above, or somehow from the hull into the top of the compartment along the back.

I replaced the settee board so the next time it rain hards I should be able to see if water drips from above, or coming from within the compartment.

Any ideas?

Bob S.

The tracks at the two sides and under the companionway sliding hatch collect water that moves forward instead of draining to the aft.  Therefore, after a rain, when I move the hatch forward water tends to spill into the boat.  It seems to me that there is a design flaw and that a slope should allow water to flow aft and not collect inside and under the deck over the companion way hatch.  Has anyone else encounter this problem, and is there a fix.  My "new" boat is a 1996 C34, hull number 1312.

thanks.

bob s