After a mixed night, slept well until around 4-ish, then dozed and grumbled until about 7, we woke to a bright, breezy and chilly morning.
Copious coffee and bacon butties desert urea up for the day and we cracked on with fitting the new sink drain sump pump.
Once we'd got it worked out, a trip to the chandlers at Burnham plus a visit to Wickes at Maldon sorted out the final bits and pieces of electrical string, choc bloc and jubilee clips.
Back on board, a couple of hours work saw the pump installed, plumbed in and wired up. A test proved it works nicely!
Lunch of soup followed by cheese and pickled onion sarnies refueled us ready to tackle the next job of sorting out the anchor warp.
We've a decent length of chain supplemented by a further length of octoplait nylon warp but the join between the two was a bit of a problem. The warp was spliced to a short length of chain which was then shackled to the main chain and the whole assembly was very reluctant to emerge from below decks via the chain pipe.
With the shackle disconnected and the short length of chain cut out, I set about splicing the warp directly to the chain. I think it turned out ok but by the time I'd finished it was too late to test it.
We put my bed back together, tidied up the main cabin and repaired to the pub for beer and food. An early night looks likely though as we're a bit tired!
Hi Bru
ReplyDeleteHow will your sump cope with the inevitable sludge from the galley sink?
Ours drains through the bottom of the boat via a seacock and a right angle fitting, which I don't like as it is always getting clogged by mud. She will be coming out of the water for a month on Tuesday, to check amongst other things the seacocks and skin fittings.
Fair winds.
Ian & Jo (Apogee)
Hi Ian,
ReplyDeleteThe sump has a strainer ahead of the pump which will need periodically cleaning. How often it needs cleaning will depend on how well my crew obey standing orders not to flush crud down the drain :)
Access to the sump is easy enough as we've mounted it under the saloon sole beneath an easily removed access panel. The downside of the setup is complexity compared to a simple gravity drain, the upside is that the overboard skin fitting is right up under the gunnel and well clear of the waterline
Bru