Monday, April 14, 2008

Day 3 - saga continues

Day 3 - Chores Continue and more discoveries

We tackled tasks today that would maximize the presence of the shop vac: this included cleaning out spots of the boat that had not seen the light of day for some time as well as doing some dremel/plastic cutting projects.[ cutting down pamphlet-book boxes to fit the shelves and re-sizing plastic dividers from the head cupboard to be used in the storage over the stove.]

While Robing did a town-run, I replaced the pressure switch on the water pump; that fixed the pump chatter problem of yesterday. However, as I was getting the cabin put back to normal, the pump kicked in; since I was not running any water this could only mean a leak; sure enough it was NOT the repair I made in the fall but hot water leaking out of the water tank.

So, we knocked off a few items off the list but now have to ADD : buy new water tank, disconnect old tank without spilling engine glycol over the bilge/berth, and lift old tank out of the hold without putting out our backs. Oh yes; need to make sure that the replacement tank has plumbing connections in same orientation or else it will be major plumbing effort.


No, I didn't get to replacing the Y-valve in the head as planned!; that will be later in the week....Ensh'alla [god willing] as they say in Saudi.

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