June 30 | Maintenance Day

I've got two diverter valves on order from Defender. Even though I placed a Second Day Air order on Thursday, UPS claims they are going to be delivered on Tuesday. That's 4 days by my count...

Meantime I got a bit more work done, adding cleats for the holding tank, and starting on some of the plumbing that isn't dependant on the diverters: the intake loop, and the branch run to the deck pumpout fitting.

June 28 | Maintenance Day

Got a start on the head and holding tank project. Cut open the settee and figured out the fit for the tank. Also did some planning work and made some shopping lists for plumbing parts.

Of course, it was one of the hottest and steamiest days of the year so far. Temps in the mid 90s. I know some of you probably think that's just a nice summer day, but here in Maine it's about as hot as it ever gets.

June 26 | Maintenance Day

With a new Lavac Popular marine head in hand, and a lead on a quality custom-built-for-a-Triton holding tank, I headed out to the boat to take some general measurements for planning purposes. I also knew that I would need to deal with my frozen head discharge seacock before I would be able to pull the old head and install the new.

When we purchased her, the boat had only 3 proper seacocks installed: one for the head intake, one for the head overboard discharge, and one in the hanging locker which is not attached to anything(!) presumably put in place in anticipation of adding a sink to the hanging locker area.

Although we haven't decided yet if we want to remove that seacock and through-hull in the hanging locker, we are postive that we will be adding seacocks to the other four through-hulls that are below the waterline. Three of these through-hulls are simply fiberglass tubes with aging hose attached with rusting clamps. The fourth is for the raw water intake for the diesel. That through-hull at least had an inline ball valve attached to the seawater intake strainer. Still inadequate, but a step up from the cockpit and galley sink drains.