Has any Ty owner ever seen the rear of their bilge close up? The reason I ask is using a strong flashlight and small bicycle mirror that I fit through the inspection hole on the cabin floor, I can see the back of my bilge and what looks to be a small piece of wood (say about 5 inches high by 1 1/2 inches wide), stuck vertically on my back bilge wall. I'm wondering if that's supposed to be there, or just a rotting piece of flotsam that somehow attached itself to the rear of my bilge. I incidentally don't know it's wood, I can't see it clear enough, it just looks like a piece of wood stuck back there.
Incidentally, I found out a little about my bilge which I'll pass on for anyone interested. My boat is presently on its trailer. I put a mechanic's light in the bilge after dark and went outside where I could see the light shining through the hull. I moved the light around and this gave me a pretty good idea of what my bilge looked like. Basically the bilge is simply the vacant area between the port or starboard hull skins. The bilge on my '74 TY ran pretty much straight back from the inspection hole, (if it dropped it was only an inch or two), about 11 inches above the bottom of the keel, until it almost reached the keel end. There the bottom of my bilge ended about 9 inches forward of the back of my keel, and then gradually sloped up so it ended about 5 inches forward of the the back of my keel around the top of my rudder. The top of the bilge is the fiberglass pan that runs a foot or so below my cockpit floor. Just for anyone's information.
Thanks. Roger
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Has Anybody Seen Rear of Typhoon Bilge?
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