Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Working to hard.... not enough time for the boat.

Working 12 hour nights 4-5 per week so very little time to work on the boat. But have managed to get the foreward head working, with a new toilet and holding tank, all new hose ( the real good kind... ) and have put in 90% of the new 15mm water lines. The aft head is coming along, with the purasan waste treatment system 85% complete, and the rairitan elegance electric head almost finished. Waiting on some fittings to finish it all up. I removed the aft holding tank to fit the purasan, which is a waste treatment system that allows full disinfection  and over board discharge of toilet soild matter. It uses a chemical reaction using fresh water and electricity to kill 99% of pathogens in stool. If I am in a No discharge zone, I will use the foreward manual head and holding tank, which currently is set up for only being emptied by a shoreside pump. In the future there will be provisions for empting it with a macerator pump to overboard.
Also managed to remove some cabinetry in the galley to replace the deck drains, and the water fill hoses as well as the water vent hose. All badly in need of replacement. I also need to finish the wiring of the port side, and the galley wiring, as well as a few others.
Happily the air conditioning system is operational, and one day it was on cool, the next heat.... as the weather here in Texas is a bit crazy but is not settling down.
The Corpus Christi in water boat show starts in a few weeks, which means moving the boat to a new slip for a few weeks ..... and the last time  that  happened she took on water, so the stress level is a bit high anticipating that.
Will post some picures when possible.