Friday, November 20, 2015

Water Tank Issues



Painted the plywood flooring for the under the queen bed storage area.  Two coats on each side.  We also emptied the port holding  tank and sprayed it out with fresh water before refilling.  Weather looks good for tomorrow so we plan to leave by 6:30am.  Bob fixed the forward bilge pump which had quit working for some unknown reason.  Unknown reason turned out to be the check valve clogged with debris.  All fine now and works.   

We emptied out the port fresh water tank and Bob sprayed it down with the hose sprayer.  When I filled the fresh water tanks I overfilled them and fresh water leaked into the bilge so the below the aft bilge pump began to run.  Soon we figured out it was fresh water so no worries. The top of the port tank was a swimming pool and I sponged out 21 quarts of water and put on a fan to dry out the area.  After dinner I took out more water and left a fan on overnight.  My hands are tired.  Now, over filling shouldn't be a problem. We should have recognized this as an omen of things to come.

We had hot dogs and chili for dinner.  When are we going to start eating better?  Oh yeah, tomorrow.   To our benefit, we both exercised this morning.  Bob went for a run and I did my series of jumping jacks, push ups, side planks and lunges.  By 8:30 we had cleaned up from dinner and the boat was mostly ship shape for leaving tomorrow morning at 6:30am, high tide.  It is around 50 outside and we have the heat on.  I am going to miss the heat tomorrow as we will probably be anchored somewhere.

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