Down to one leak

[JMAC]

We launched PONDER Saturday. She's carvel planked with cedar on oak frames. Do you think she could still be swelling up? Right now she's got water coming in noticably on the starboard joint between the keel and the garboard. This was a wide joint when the boat was in the shop and she's been out of the water since '98. What would you do?

[jimmy]

As long as the bilge pumps can easily keep up with the water coming in I wouldn't start to worry for a week or two. Make sure you have a backup bilge pump and the battery on a charger (or stay on board) and wait.

[Bob Adams]

What Jimmy said. My boat is carvel planked, and I have seen her still taking up 2 weeks after a good drying. She'll be fine.

[JMAC]

I can pump her out once a day and have about 4 or 5 inches in the bilge before pumping. At launch there was a leak just behind the centerboard trunk that stopped and that looks like the amount that was coming in yesterday at the garboard joint. If I wait a couple of weeks then I'll probably make it to haul out before the end of the month. Maybe then I'll get to inspect from the outside and fill with seam compound.

[Gary E]

So far all we know is how ir's built and I suppose it's name, PONDER, which only means somethng to you.
To me, sounds like it could be a 11 ft long skiff you use to paddle around in a farm pond.

If it's big boat, do as the other's have saod and let it swell.
I'd maybe pull it out and fix it...

[JMAC]

You can see the boat moments after the launch over in the misc. boat related thread called "What makes a good boat launch." It's the boat that's in the water, not the one hanging from lines sideways over the water...scroll down a bit, you'll find it.