The holding tank removal was our main task this week, however sometimes you just need a break to do something else or there’s only room for one person, so over the course of the past few days Jason and I removed some other stuff from the boat!
We’re going to also redo the entire electrical system and the batteries are super dead. Jason muscled those out of their little nook!
Another one of our big tickets items is the fancy arch that will go on the back of the boat to hold our dinghy and solar panels. When we bought the boat it looked like this:
We ended up gifting our old panels to aforementioned neighbors Sue and Russ. All that’s left to remove now is the radar post and the windvane. The windvane is connected to the steering below so we started with the “easier” radar arch. (nothing on a boat is easy…true fact) Luckily, we had already removed all of the crap from the storage area where all of the wiring for the radar is located and I could crawl right in. The next 3-4 hours were spent chasing wires and removing them in order to be able to remove the radar. At some point, though, I got distracted and went down the rabbit hole of removing the wiring for the generator that we will eventually remove. There is a lot of obsolete and unusable equipment down here.
This needed to go in order to install the new arch and dinghy hoist on the back of the boat. The radar will be relocated up higher on the mast.
Maybe tomorrow we can get the windvane removed!
