I just found out the steel supplier gave me the wrong piece of steel for my prop shaft. I now have to go through the whole process of getting it machined and it will cost me this time.
jeezus, a bloke could weep.

Gary King wrote:And take that screw out.

When we built Badger, we took out almost every screw and those that we didn't were glued in as per the Gougeon Bros instructions.  No leaks ever and I feel it was a well worth while strategy.  The other thinking was that repairs and modifications can be carried out without worrying about having to saw through metal.

With prop shaft aligned I started rebuilding the skeg around the stern tube today. A slow steady job of laminating in strips of Oregon that has taken me most of the day.

Joking aside, the leak is running from somewhere to somewhere. Unless it's straight down, and that doesn't appear to be the case, it's migrating along a hidden route. Noticing the leak during a rainfall obscures all possibilities of finding the flawed and leaky joint on deck. My suggestion would be to pour a stained or dyed liquid* on various parts of the deck to narrow down the source. Something water soluble as a dye would probably be best as any staining below could be removed with household bleach, (I think.)

How long after it started raining did you notice the leak?

* Or just plain water on small sections, letting each section either leak or not and dry before testing another section of the deck.

How fast was it leaking? A fast drip suggests a large "hole" above. A slow drip suggests a tiny flaw. That could be harder still to track down.

Gary King wrote:I noticed a leak on the deck yesterday. It was raining while I was inside working on settees. The water drips through at one point, up on deck it is glassed, epoxied and painted, completely sealed, flawless, no sign of where the water would get in.

So I'm thinking to myself "now what?"

Don't you just hate that?:)