For the last two years I’ve been trying to find a small leak in our rigid inflatable, but with no success.
Of course, I haven’t been too quick to troubleshoot the cause of the leak as we only use our inflatable when we’re out of Georgetown, but recently I had some down time and so I dropped the dink into the water and drug it to the beach.
Two hours of searching for a leak resulted in no progress what-so-ever, but a well meaning passerby(er) suggested cleaning the air valve itself as sometime they do not seal completely. There is a cap that screws over the valve, but I doubt it’s airtight, so I got some alcohol and a couple of Q-Tips and cleaned it up.
I pumped the dinghy full and now we are waiting to see if the repair works. If this doesn’t fix it, I’ll have narrowed the problem to the only remaining possibility.....
Tom Brady and his cronies have been making nightly visits and releasing a small portion of my trapped air molecules. Damn you New England Patriots!
Be safe, it’s dumb out there …