Eight Crows is tired getting rained on inside the Ericson 27. In this video we repair the all the known leaks in the deck and chase down the sneaky ones. Don...

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hi welcome back in today's video we're

going to be looking at finding leaks in

this Erickson restore project

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this Erickson over the last few years

that we've owned I have a number of

problematic leaks and they have been as

a result of people drilling straight

through the inner and outer hull to the

top deck and there's a wood rot also we

have where the stays come in attached

the water is coming in at that

attachment point where the strap goes

into the glass down below deck the other

thing is it's a 30 50 year old boat so I

mean I'm pretty sure that ask people

been parking I see some dents in my

bumpers there's probably some issues

with where the cult joins together

underneath the bumper there may have

been some separation over the years and

water could be coming in there we are

going to replace the fix and replace

glass on this on the top deck and if

there's any bumper leaks gonna fix those

too I'm hoping that by the end of this

video we're gonna have no leaks in this

boat so anyway let's go and look at our

possible leak sills thanks taken Lee the

leaks from screw penetration and cop

deck captain fix we then did a quick

leak test to find water still coming

into the boat

Crow's and I check to see if any screen

doors were open of which there were none

logically this meant there's a leak in

the deck to haul joint someone may have

bumped the boat when it was more

and not said anything we are now

removing the bumper to continue our

search for the source of Artie

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the next step is that we're going to

actually try and find a water leak so

I'm going to take a water hose simple

simple water hose and I'm going to put

it up against the bumper which is the

seam between a top deck and the bottom

deck and we're gonna put some water

pressure on to see if we can find a leak

occur so let's go and do that

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in our next step what we're gonna do is

I'm gonna pressure wash that dirt off of

the where the bumper is attached in the

two calls come together and then we'll

be able to repair it by adding some

glass and filler in to stop the leaks so

let's work on that

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well now that the the joint between the

deck and the hall which is normally

covered up by the the bumper has been

pressure-washed I'm gonna I put some

acetone into a little spray bottle and

I'm gonna go around I'm gonna spray into

the crack and that's going to prep the

surface to be repaired now I did some

research into this and the problem is I

looked up there and there was a number

of places that the it looks like someone

had done some repair and they they did

it with fiberglass and what has happened

is it it's gone and cracked again so

obviously this joint flexes a little bit

and it's an old boat and the 3m people

they've come up with something that is

quite permanent it's there I'm using

fast here it's there 5200 series of okay

it's like a construction adhesive almost

it's for marine you can use a top side

bottom side and this one here the faster

it'll be ready to rock and roll in 24

hours it'll be just as good as the

regular one which is 50 to the 5200

regular it is sets up in 24 hours this

sets up in one hour and then it takes

seven days for it to finally get into

its completely cured state this one here

is a set up in one hour so when I open

this I better have everything ready to

rock and roll because once it gets once

it gets going it's busy setting up

I'm gonna do the stay attachments with

this because again it is a man-made

rubber it is flexible and those areas

flex and I continuously haven't leaks

there so I've dug out all the old stuff

around around those attachment points

and I'm gonna fill this and level it out

and let it go give it a try

the 3m people say it's gonna be one hell

of a job trying to get this stuff off

once it's in well and that's about all I

have to say so time's a-wastin it's

gonna rain on me today so I'd like to

get this in by the way rain is good for

it because rain helped secure because

moist it's a moisture curing the type of

sealant okay off to work wheel

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well this rapid cure 5300 sure uh setup

nice this is like really tough looking

tire rubber when you push on it it's

also expanded as its as its cured I mean

this stuff cures by the amount of

moisture in the air not even tacky and

it's ready

this will take a screw according to 3m

people well that's the end of the fixing

of the leaks I only had the deck Hall

leaks and the previous owner had drilled

a bunch of holes that went right through

my top deck and through those screws we

had leaks that were forever happening

every time we went out in a nice rainy

day we'd have buckets under everything

anyway all those are taken care of so

what's left to do is clean it up paint

it and that's it hey guys thank you so

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