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.

The work goes on like a hard slog to windward.

I expect this would happen to anyone in a major refit. When you hit a wall and look around and see how much work this to go and get discouraged. So on my spare time yesterday, I took a gander on the 'net on boats forsale that I would love to take, right now, and go voyaging, instead of putting about in the dank dark cold interior of Sarah Claire. It was a nice interlude. But fantasy, so back to the grind.
This week finds me installing 2 marine air, air conditioning units. What a difficult job this is proving to be.
The boat when purchased, had 1 16500 btu air conditioner installed in it.  This might have worked out ok, or as the PO (previous owner) stated "works great" (NOT!) if it had been installed correctly, but of course it was not. You cannot install a ac unit on a boat with 2 ducts, both less than a foot from the unit. Just doesn't work. The cold air just recycles around itself causing the unit to freeze and the rest of the boat to stay hot. AC in name only.
So last year 2 marine air vector turbo units were purchased. Finally got around to attempting to install them this week.  Boats just are not meant to have duct work in them like a home. It is very difficult to place a 6" hole in a bulkhead that you can hardly get your hand into to cut. Most of them have fiberglass tabbing as well, which ruins the cutting edge on my tools. Cutting one hole can take hours. Then  there is the plumbing.
Oh how much fun  it is  when these marine supplies give you stuff that just doesn't fit right. Like a pump that has a 1" in and a 3/4" out, neither of which they supplied with the unit. Or the duct connector that fits to the top of the ac unit that the duct attaches to, but then of course the screw holes do not line up... not even close.
Or many other such examples. In fact I find that the more involved I get the more ticked off at these companies I get. They must not install their own products, cause if they did they would supply a extra screw or two, make sure the places where things are put like wires, bolts screws etc, are large enough for it and more. Its impossible not to drop a screw now and then installing this stuff in places where access is quite difficult. And once dropped, forgetaboutit. I now have in my bilge a few screws, washers, and a very nice ratching wrench that I know I will miss.

So I am a little tired this week. It will pass. I will keep slogging on. I need to get the water tanks back in asap so the salon sole can be reinstalled. That will be great, to have a real floor to walk on again instead of slipping and sliding around on the fiberglass boat bottom. Soon. Real soon.

Feels like I'm back in Seattle....

Nothing but rain on my days off here in the coastal bend of Texas.
Found that every portlight leaks, every hatch leaks, and water is coming in via the cockpit floor at the base of the
steering binnacle. Very wet footing on boad makes it hazardous to my health while working aboard.
This week finds me putting in the victron multi plus inverter charger. A wonderful piece of equipment  that is used to convert d/c power from the batteries to a/c for microwaves, blender,tools, blow driers (Julie has to have that..) and various other a/c powered things on board. In addition it also charges the batteries while a/c power is available either through shore power, or a generator. It can also do some really cool things like power share between a genset and the batteries, meaning that you can get by with a smaller generator for running things like air conditioning or heavy a/c loads.
Installing it requires some pretty heavy duty cables, plus alternating current which can be deadly. So, I have to be very sure of what I am doing. I take my time, plan well, buy the best parts, and test. Once the inverter is in I can start wiring the rest of the a/c system, and start charging the batteries, which need a good charge. They are new but batteries discharge while just sitting, and these have been sitting for a while.
Its all good fun, and exciting, except when the boat is all wet inside... then its time to sit it out till its dry again.
One day at a time.

Moving day.

Today we moved the boat from the yard to the slip. First time in 7 months we were together on board.
After sitting for so long the boat is in a mess topsides as well as below.
Plus the new shinny aluminm fuel tank won't fit thru the companion way. Oops, guess I should have measured that as well.
Its a bittersweet moment. I have so much to do, but then mess up by one or two inches on the fuel tank measurements...
I got some thinking to do as to what our options are. But still glad to be back at the dock.