As I mentioned in the previous post, some of my "progress" is sometimes in the negative direction.

After a bunch of our rain in the last couple of weeks, I've discovered I have a few leaks. Not from above, but below. Not where you want a boat to leak (is there really anywhere you want a boat to leak?).

After a rain/pumping session, I got to looking at the keel a bit, looking to see how the temperature changes were doing on the seams and found a problem. Actually several.

It was seeping water out in about 4 places. Just pin-prick areas. As near as I can figure it, the void between the inner and outer keel has finally gotten enough water in it from all the flooding of the last week, combined with several rapid temperature changes opening up a couple of little cracks to have the water dripping out.

Maybe I would have been better to just drill a drain hole at the beginning. Well, if I can get the top closed up the rest of the way so we quit getting much water into it, the bottom will drain itself after a few warm days, I think. Then a little patching (and probably the expansion from warmer weather will help) and I think it will be ok. Probably a future source of rot down the road, but probably (hopefully) way down the road.