October 2022

 October 30,

Well, I was out of the country for most of the month.  I had a work trip to Johannesburg South Africa and my wife and I stopped off in Paris on the way back.  We replay had a great time and learned a lot about South Africa.  Beautiful country and very nice people.  

I managed to get some work in this weekend on the boat though.  Putting the finishing touches on the tanks.  Getting them to not leak was not the end but, luckily, the end of the trouble.  Everything since has gone fairly smoothly. 

I'll have some photos soon. 

Final fitting of the top of the fresh water tank with the access port fully populated with  bolts.  Those took some time to install.  

An actual finished fresh water tank.  The other ready to have its top welded on.

The holding tanks (or black water tanks) with their tops fitted and ports drilled for access and plumbing.  I've got one of the floor beams in place to check the fit. I had to order another bulkhead fitting to accommodate the shower drain from the shower sump pump.  Originally I had it plumbed into the pump-out tube between the tanks but I figured that that would not work well when pumping out the tanks.  There is no guarantee that the sump pump would hold the pump-out vacuum and I'd have to put a valve on the line to make it work correctly.  The new plan is to run it to the top of the tank using a bulkhead fitting.  There is just enough clearance.