Access to fuel locker pipe

[dbybe]

Huge effort, Don, but you've found your leak!

I think I'm seeing the back of the cockpit on the left, with the cast fiberglass pipe stub, and the flat transom on the right (no fitting). Once the cockpit was slid in place, someone with skinny arms tried to glass the pipe stub to the transom. The glass sagged at the top and bottom (of the photo), and tore on the top side that is visible likely sometime later. I can't make out if a piece of pipe ran from the transom up into the pipe stub, but the glass doesn't look like it was supported by anything when laid up.

The gap between the cockpit and transom looks to be about 1 1/2"-2". Can you access the pipe stub from the cockpit interior? I assume you can from the transom exterior. I would consider making water tight connections there, with a continuous pipe running between them, with screw threads or tightly sleeved pipes and caulk, and bypass this mess. There are lots of bulkhead tank fittings that might help.

Sounds like you understand the picture pretty well.

I can access each end of this area, but the end within the fuel locker is hard to reach. Presently I have a plastic sleeve through this area. I tried to seal it at each end, but it was still leaking. In hindsight I should have worked a little more to make that work.  Since I have this area open, and a sleeve in place, I will probably do both. First though I will flood this area to confirm where it is leaking.