Despite not going for a walk and heading straight to the boat, we got a little bit of a late start this morning.  We took a little bit of time to move our portable rolling air conditioner to the truck and then up the stairs, down the stairs, and into the boat! (Glad we didn’t sell this when we moved!) It’s in the 90’s here in Jacksonville now and just hot enough for us to want to leave the boat around noon… if we get to the boat at 9, that’s not going to cut it! Hopefully now that the interior of the boat is decently pleasant (I wouldn’t call it cool.. but it’ll do!) we can put a little more time in each day!

Jason and I are still working on finishing the installation of the new electrical system.  This meant I had to crawl back into the hole and run a bunch of the smaller control wires, grounds, etc.

Tomorrow I can install the small wires (waiting on a tool from Amazon…) and continue chasing dead wires and pulling it out.  It’s coming along pretty good now!

When we got the boat, most of the wire bundles and hoses were held up with zip ties that have a built in place for a screw to hold them to the bulkheads.  This is really handy until you need to cut the zip tie.  Now you have two sharp stubs of zip tie bolted to the wall and it’s useless.  I’ve started removing these and replacing them with little saddle type zip tie holders.  The saddles bolt into place and the zip tie just goes through them, so they’re reusable if you need to cut the tie.  Another unintentional benefit of these is that they raise the height of the cables by an inch or more (assuming I’m reusing the same hole for the screw… which I usually do).  For some reason water has/had been getting into the boat and a lot of the wiring is covered in mud/dirt/grime/nastiness.  I’m hoping that with the cable elevated off of the deck, that it will cut down on anything just gathering in the wiring, because it’s hella disgusting.

Also because I was down in the bilge messing with zip ties, I realized how much it bugged me that the water supply hose to the galley is equally as gross.  I finally got everything cleaned up enough to be able to wiggle the hose and find it on the other end where the manifolds are located.  After that it was pretty quick and easy to pull the old hose out and route a new one in a different location up and out of the way! Oh yeah… the old hose came out caked with oily mud. Awesome. I might have to hose out the bilge again just for my own sanity. WHY IS THERE MUD HERE?!

I think Jason was working on some wiring in the back but I was in my own little world today and I’m not sure! 😉

I did do one last thing today, but didn’t take pictures of it.  When I painted the aft lazarette a few days ago, I painted myself into a corner and didn’t finish it up.  Today I went back in and finished the painting so hopefully tomorrow we can install the new exhaust hose and be done with that particular project!