The hose knows....
Hi Richard,
You said cockpit -- did you, perchance, mean to say cabin sole?
Your bio does not say which E-34 model you have, but Ericson put a hose from the drain on the bottom of our ice box to the bilge. Right away after buying the boat I installed a plastic ball valve in the end of the hose, once I fished it out from under the galley module... That way I could drag the valved end of said hose out and drain it into a saucepan once a day, and also be sure that the cold air was not flowing wastefully into the bilge along with the melt water.
Nowadays the valve is closed and the hose is empty and the 12 volt refer does the cooling, but we lived with the ice-and-melt-water-hose-drain bit for 8 years.
Have you looked deep into the cabinet nearby for the end of your drain hose?
Best,
Loren in PDX
1988 Olson 34