In between waiting on parts and finishing up projects, we’ve also found a lot of other projects to start!

While the forward head already had fresh water supplied to it, the aft one was supplied by sea water.  That got quickly removed, but when I started digging into the cold water supply already in the head, I realized it was a gigantic mess!  There’s no room for the hoses through the deck and the ones that are there are old and crusty and there are so many tees and fittings that it’s just a rat nest of tubing.  Having stuff like that bothers me more than is reasonable, so I started ripping it out to redo.  (the faucets are starting to rust anyway)

I started pulling all of this stuff out of the wall, but didn’t have anything to actually finish my project with! After a trip to the store I should have enough fittings to make a nice new manifold and run 50′ of new hose!

We’re almost done with the actual toilet install, just waiting on the right thing to mount the switches on to be truly done.

I suppose I wandered around the boat randomly finding new projects and breaking things.  Jason, on the other hand, was busy most of the day doing a fantastic job on wiring up all of our new equipment!

In the course of doing all of this work I ended up with 2 seawater strainers… They were looking pretty crusty so I went ahead and brought them home to clean them up! They’re like $300 each, so if I don’t have to buy new ones, that’ll save us some money!

We have unfortunately realized that a few of the thru hull fittings in our boat are very loose and need to be backed out and re-sealed.  There are also 6 holes in our boat that no longer have a function.  The boat used to have an air conditioning system and the generator.. that leaves a lot of services we no longer need.  Eventually I’d love to just fiberglass these holes our of the boat, but until then I will just cap them.  The biggest one is the old direct overboard discharge for the forward head. It’s an inch and a half diameter.  That’s a big hole! We can close the valve and then cap it for double protection from flooding.

Running all of this new plumbing and wiring has sometimes been a giant pain in the ass. There are spots where there isn’t a lot of clearance but a lot of services need to pass through.  Add in an odd shape to the hull and you get a bit of a packaging nightmare.  Sometimes me being small and able to fit into tiny spaces comes in handy.  Jason took a picture of me doing what I do best!

The boat still needs a ton of work, but I’m really happy with the progress we’ve been able to make on it so far!