I really can’t even think of a theme for today’s post. We were on the boat until dinner time today, so it was a super long day for us.  A storm rolled through and kept it cool enough that we could keep working. I’m exhausted! 😮

I was messing around in the engine area and realized that one of the pieces of sound insulation was falling off of a piece of plywood next to the exhaust elbow.  I quickly made a cardboard template, cut a new piece, and screwed it into place so it wouldn’t fall again!  Really easy fix and not even on my to do list, but satisfying nonetheless.

Originally, the boat had a little sheet of rubber to separate the exhaust coolant water from the turbocharger.  Turbos get super hot and I didn’t think that little piece of rubber would cut it.  While we were at the boat parts store today I found a scrap of silicone exhaust tubing.  I cut it in half and attached it to the hose! It’s about 1/4″ thick and should work perfectly!

We also found a little tube with a coiled hose in it at the store. These things are deceptively expensive despite being a piece of plastic tubing with a lid… and this one was free (long story). Remember the giant hole in the back of the transom of the boat? We’re going to turn it into a washdown station so we can clean fish on the back and flush our dinghy engine with freshwater!

Our plans include installing a slider underneath the navigation station table to mount our portable 12V cooler that we currently have in our 4Runner.  I’m ignoring the sliders for now, but I went ahead and installed a 12v socket in a convenient place underneath so I’ll be ready to roll!

While I was doing all of this stuff, Jason wired up our new bilge high level alarm.  We used the control panel to fill an existing hole in the woodwork!

Jason also installed a nice little box to control all of the power going to his radio equipment.  We had the box already from something that we removed.  We’ve reused a lot of little pieces like this throughout the boat.  I even have a box of wires that we pulled out and saved.  We’ve only had to buy like 20′ of special wiring in total, the rest we’ve scavenged!

We made really good progress today, even though the photos don’t necessarily show it.  I even have another large gash in my arm to prove I actually did some work today! (HA!) Once my next round of Amazon packages arrive we can really start making some progress on the interior!