RTFL, you know ruth manages one? Too funny.
On 4/26/08 3:19 PM, alan P wrote :
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 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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