High water alarm going off when trying to plane

MiamiAG

Hi,

So as my boat's bow goes up in the process of planing, the high water alarm is sounding. When I achieve plane, it turns off. Obviously, the bilge has enough water in it that it accumulates where the float switch is and causes the alarm.

In a 2013 290ec, does anyone know where the float switch is for this alarm? I don't know if I'm dealing with the forward bilge under the mattress in the aft cabin or the bilge in the engine compartment.

Thanks,

Art

aero3113

On my 330 it’s mounted on a little shelf in between the engines near the transom. That seems like a lot of water in your bilge if it’s able to set off the alarm. You should run the bilge pump before and during plaining.

aero3113

High water alarm is connected to the engine room only I believe.

aero3113

You can see where mine is in this picture, behind the hatch strut.

MiamiAG

Thanks. I will be looking to see. Either way, the bilge is getting a wet/dry vac treatment to pull all water out.

MiamiAG

So the aft bilge was not too bad with the water level. However, the mid bilge area under the mid cabin berth had about two inches of water. I decided to pull that out with the wet vac.

Interestingly, when I removed the 2 inches of water, I noticed that there seems to be a gap between the floor and the wall right behind the steps that is an opening to a forward bilge area (I assume). Water would rush out of this gap filling the bilge back up to the 2 inch mark. I figured this must be coming from water accumulated in the bow of the boat.

I am assuming that when the boat tilted back to get on plane, all of this water must be rushing back into the aft bilge and filling it past the alarm level. I don't think there's a high water alarm in the mid bilge area.

I continued to remove water until nothing came out of the gap. Will see if this corrects the alarm next time I'm on the water.

J3ff

Don't be like me and happily go on your way thinking problem solved. After many sleepless nights about my boat, when there is water ANYWHERE it isn't supposed to be that means there's a problem... somewhere... 

Was just up in Miami yesterday... maybe I'll open a Rinker Leaky boat business.. there can't be many more sources of a leak that my 270 hasn't shown. 

rasbury

Oh my jeff...you better be knocking on wood...but do agree water is a problem...

MiamiAG

Thanks, guys. That's the point. I don't know if what is supposed to be there or now.

We've had heavy rains and my boat gets cleaned twice a month with plenty of hose water. I'm sure there are plenty of things that could have put water in the bilges. 

Now, I wasn't aware of the area forward on the boat that seems to be feeding the mid bilge. That was new to me.