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When I visited the boat in Florida they were in the midst of some really nasty weather, flooding rain etc… The broker wanted to air out the boat and opened all of the opening ports prior to it raining, however since the boat and been using the air conditioning for so long the ports hadn’t been opened in years. I think when the ports were opened part of the gasket came away with the window and when I arrived there were buckets and rags under pretty well every opening port. You could tell that up to that point the boat hadn’t leaked there was zero evidence of any water damage inside. I made a mental note that this would have to be addressed sooner than later when the boat arrived I n Halifax. Of course I was reminded of this task the 1st time it rained in NS and got to work. The ports swing in and have two adjustable compression latches that provide the pressure to push them up against the gasket and frame crating a seal. I started by cleaned up the rubber gaskets with light san paper just to make them even. After I was satisfied that I was into good rubber I coated them with A&D baby ointment (recommended by my surveyor. I then thoroughly cleaned the ports themselves since some of the gasket material had adhered to the ports when they were 1st opened. I checked them for fit and found that when latched they weren’t that tight so I proceeded to adjust the latches via tightening a small allen screw in the latch. This worked well for 60% of the windows. In the remaining windows when I tightened the allen screw it simply bottomed out going right through the plastic pin in the latch that had degraded over time. I showed Joyce the issue and she was able to find some SS rid that I cut to replace the plastic pins, which will never rot, sweet. I am happy to say that the ports are working fine and are water tight, a few I had to adjust after sailing but all work well now. I also had a leak in the aft birth at the head of the bed after lots of looking I got a tip from the owners group and resealed the cockpit table solving this one as well. I also had some leaks in the large fixed windows so I ordered new windows for Catalina and would replace these in the spring, in the meantime I did an interim repair to keep the water out over the winter.
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