Hi Aaron,

That is perhaps the funniest thing I've read in a long time – and the picture is beautiful! Both are so prototypical of the plight of boat owners.

Thanks for that!

Bob Pelican # 8

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Aaron Lynch < ([email][/email])> wrote:

Hey all, I just posted some pix of my not-yet-complete bilge project.

https://www.pearson424.org/gallery/Bilge-on-Ra

So here’s how this little project went,

I wanted a horn at the spreaders. When I went to install it, I had difficulty getting the wiring in the mast because there was a lot of old crap. So I pulled that out.
And re-wired from the binnacle to the spreaders. In doing that I found oil in the bilge, suddenly clearing up the mystery of the disappearing oil.

The original Bilge Pump left several inches of water in the bilge, topped with about a gallon of oil.

So I decided to redo the bilge pump setup as per suggestions from the list, but the shower sump was in the way, so I had to relocate that, (as in I had to rent a sawzall) which in turn meant having to relocate the raw water strainer.

When I removed the sump hose, I discovered that the seacock would not shut off. SO I replaced that.

(I did however talk my girlfriend into crawling into the bilge to help clean it. Again thanks to the list I was able to say “see hun, other admirals do it, it would be ‘weird’ if you refused”)

The best place to put the new sump was occupied by the holding tank discharge. SO I had to relocate that, which meant a couple new hoses.

So I decided to replace ALL of the sanitation hoses. In the course of this, I discovered that the discharge pump went straight to the seacock without a vented loop. Meaning that a small check valve in the pump was all that was keeping the seawater out of the holding tank.

While it was out, I rebuilt the discharge pump, where I discovered that the check valve didn’t in fact close all the way, which suddenly explained why the holding tank was full even if we didn’t use it for a week.

While I had nearly every friggin hose and wire in the bilge exposed I needed to climb into all of the aft lazzarettes, and since I had all that crap out of the boat I did a deep spring cleaning to inventory the boat and add everything into John’s excel spreadsheet.

But then it was dark, and supposed to rain and so I had to put it all back, and now I have to take it back out to inventory it so damned you John and your cool excel spreadsheet!!!!

Or and my boat is a friggin’ deathtrap.

I still don’t have the raw water pump or the sump reinstalled or even found the oil leak yet.

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Aaron,
I also loved the rant – actually you beat me to it. I've spent the last month trying to install my composting head, but it seems every day something more critical pops up and demands my attention. Two days ago the hard drive on my navigation computer crashed and burned. Spent a couple of days trying to restore it, then got my backup computer computer working , sorta. Yesterday I thought I was ready to move out on the head, when the galley faucet decided it was time to spring a leak – that's my task for today.
One thing I can say though – all these broken parts are very well inventoried.
Now if I can just keep those idiots on the Dell Auction site from outbidding me, I'll have two replacements for my old navigation computers.

John

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Robert Fine < ([email][/email])> wrote:

Hi Aaron,

That is perhaps the funniest thing I've read in a long time – and the picture is beautiful! Both are so prototypical of the plight of boat owners.

Thanks for that!

Bob Pelican # 8

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Aaron Lynch < ([email][/email])> wrote:

Hey all, I just posted some pix of my not-yet-complete bilge project.

https://www.pearson424.org/gallery/Bilge-on-Ra

So here's how this little project went,

I wanted a horn at the spreaders. When I went to install it, I had difficulty getting the wiring in the mast because there was a lot of old crap. So I pulled that out.
And re-wired from the binnacle to the spreaders. In doing that I found oil in the bilge, suddenly clearing up the mystery of the disappearing oil.

The original Bilge Pump left several inches of water in the bilge, topped with about a gallon of oil.

So I decided to redo the bilge pump setup as per suggestions from the list, but the shower sump was in the way, so I had to relocate that, (as in I had to rent a sawzall) which in turn meant having to relocate the raw water strainer.

When I removed the sump hose, I discovered that the seacock would not shut off. SO I replaced that.

(I did however talk my girlfriend into crawling into the bilge to help clean it. Again thanks to the list I was able to say “see hun, other admirals do it, it would be 'weird' if you refused”)

The best place to put the new sump was occupied by the holding tank discharge. SO I had to relocate that, which meant a couple new hoses.

So I decided to replace ALL of the sanitation hoses. In the course of this, I discovered that the discharge pump went straight to the seacock without a vented loop. Meaning that a small check valve in the pump was all that was keeping the seawater out of the holding tank.

While it was out, I rebuilt the discharge pump, where I discovered that the check valve didn't in fact close all the way, which suddenly explained why the holding tank was full even if we didn't use it for a week.

While I had nearly every friggin hose and wire in the bilge exposed I needed to climb into all of the aft lazzarettes, and since I had all that crap out of the boat I did a deep spring cleaning to inventory the boat and add everything into John's excel spreadsheet.

But then it was dark, and supposed to rain and so I had to put it all back, and now I have to take it back out to inventory it so damned you John and your cool excel spreadsheet!!!!

Or and my boat is a friggin' deathtrap.

I still don't have the raw water pump or the sump reinstalled or even found the oil leak yet.

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Welcome to boating my friend… what is it that West
Marine says…. We make boating more fun!!!!.

— Aaron Lynch <> wrote:

Hey all, I just posted some pix of my
not-yet-complete bilge project.

https://www.pearson424.org/gallery/Bilge-on-Ra

So here¹s how this little project went,

I wanted a horn at the spreaders. When I went to
install it, I had
difficulty getting the wiring in the mast because
there was a lot of old
crap. So I pulled that out.
And re-wired from the binnacle to the spreaders. In
doing that I found oil
in the bilge, suddenly clearing up the mystery of
the disappearing oil.

The original Bilge Pump left several inches of water
in the bilge, topped
with about a gallon of oil.

So I decided to redo the bilge pump setup as per
suggestions from the list,
but the shower sump was in the way, so I had to
relocate that, (as in I had
to rent a sawzall) which in turn meant having to
relocate the raw water
strainer.

When I removed the sump hose, I discovered that the
seacock would not shut
off. SO I replaced that.

(I did however talk my girlfriend into crawling into
the bilge to help clean
it. Again thanks to the list I was able to say ³see
hun, other admirals do
it, it would be Œweird¹ if you refused²)

The best place to put the new sump was occupied by
the holding tank
discharge. SO I had to relocate that, which meant a
couple new hoses.

So I decided to replace ALL of the sanitation hoses.
In the course of this,
I discovered that the discharge pump went straight
to the seacock without a
vented loop. Meaning that a small check valve in
the pump was all that was
keeping the seawater out of the holding tank.

While it was out, I rebuilt the discharge pump,
where I discovered that the
check valve didn¹t in fact close all the way, which
suddenly explained why
the holding tank was full even if we didn¹t use it
for a week.

While I had nearly every friggin hose and wire in
the bilge exposed I needed
to climb into all of the aft lazzarettes, and since
I had all that crap out
of the boat I did a deep spring cleaning to
inventory the boat and add
everything into John¹s excel spreadsheet.

But then it was dark, and supposed to rain and so I
had to put it all back,
and now I have to take it back out to inventory it
so damned you John and
your cool excel spreadsheet!!!!

Or and my boat is a friggin¹ deathtrap.

I still don¹t have the raw water pump or the sump
reinstalled or even found
the oil leak yet.

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