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Old 06-04-2013, 06:35 AM   #10
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Good point. I probably spent an hour last night just looking, measuring, sketching, and scheming. I also put a big pipe wrench to the through-hull tailpiece just for fun. Couldn't even budge it. I decided against going back and trying again with a cheater bar. No telling what might give first.

So, my plan now is to mount the pumps and strainers on a board that will fit snugly in a little outboard corner of the engine room where an obsolete shower drain pump now sits. I should be able to clear the strainers relatively comfortably by laying across the battery box cover. From that same position I can easily manipulate the seacock on the through-hull.

Both shower drain pumps (fore and aft) are being replaced by new shower sumps, to be located in the bilges amidships somewhere between the showers and the new A/C units, so they can take both the shower water and the A/C condensate.
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