The trouble with the water tank

It seems water leaked down into the bilge, froze, and tore the internal keel partition separating the water and fuel tanks. The giveaway was slight bulging visible in the exterior keel....John has seen a few earlier cases of water freezing and splitting steel structures....really a powerful, impressive force of nature. The next step for us is to remove the tank top on the fuel tank, inspect that too, and drain the fuel. In this picture the clean drained water tank can be seen, and aft of it the top of the fuel tank still in place. 

John will drill holes in the keel to evacuate any remaining water and fuel, then refill the deepest sections of the keel with cement, and weld new tank bottoms on both the water and fuel tanks.