wkearney99
Guru
- Joined
- Feb 17, 2018
- Messages
- 2,164
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Solstice
- Vessel Make
- Grand Banks 47 Eastbay FB
No simple task is ever simple.
We've got an electric grille on the boat. And the last time it was used seems to have enough gunk on the grate to get moldy. No biggie, the grate comes clean easily enough, and I've got some spare lava rock chunks on board. The rest can wash down the drain attached under it... right?
Yeah, no.
Turns out the drain is shared by a scupper behind the cabinet. Running a bit of water down the plugged drain didn't quite have the desired effect. Oh, it cleared the drain under the grille... right back out that scupper, not down into the (above the waterline) through-hull. Which, of course, let grimy bits get drained out across the cockpit sole.
>sigh< more work...
At least I'd filled the fresh water tanks, so I was able to easily clear the mess.
But in doing so I discovered the fresh water tank must not have a clear vent because there was a hiss of air when I opened the deck fill for it. I'm not happy with the fresh water tanks, as there's only a single deck fill but there's two tanks and a 3/4" cross-over in-between them. It makes for a tedious process and extended amount of time getting the tanks filled evenly. And now there's this.
I'm tempted to re-rig things to add a valve to direct the deck fill into specific tanks. But that'll no doubt lead to an even deeper rabbit hole of 'discoveries'.
No such thing as an empty to-do list when you have a boat.
We've got an electric grille on the boat. And the last time it was used seems to have enough gunk on the grate to get moldy. No biggie, the grate comes clean easily enough, and I've got some spare lava rock chunks on board. The rest can wash down the drain attached under it... right?
Yeah, no.
Turns out the drain is shared by a scupper behind the cabinet. Running a bit of water down the plugged drain didn't quite have the desired effect. Oh, it cleared the drain under the grille... right back out that scupper, not down into the (above the waterline) through-hull. Which, of course, let grimy bits get drained out across the cockpit sole.
>sigh< more work...
At least I'd filled the fresh water tanks, so I was able to easily clear the mess.
But in doing so I discovered the fresh water tank must not have a clear vent because there was a hiss of air when I opened the deck fill for it. I'm not happy with the fresh water tanks, as there's only a single deck fill but there's two tanks and a 3/4" cross-over in-between them. It makes for a tedious process and extended amount of time getting the tanks filled evenly. And now there's this.
I'm tempted to re-rig things to add a valve to direct the deck fill into specific tanks. But that'll no doubt lead to an even deeper rabbit hole of 'discoveries'.
No such thing as an empty to-do list when you have a boat.