Plumbing upgrade

For 6 years we have had a bucket inside the boat for waste water. Most of that time we have been sophisticated enough for our sink wastes to drain into the bucket.

However, the bucket was exactly where we now need to fit the battery box for our electric motor. It had to go.

I took the big step of drilling a hole in the bottom of the boat, eventually we will use it for a salt water intake, now it has let me put in a drain to a camping waste water tank.

Then I "just" had to connect everything up. Under the sink wasn't quite as planned. I wanted to go straight back into the cockpit locker from both sinks. But the left sink would have gone into the back of one of the busbars in the motor space. So it has to come sideways first. No work of art but functional and much better than what was there.

Inside the cockpit locker the wastes get connected and we have a single U bend (we didn't have one before). You can see the busbar that was in the way of the direct pipeline.

Eventually we will have a waste water tank built-in the bottom of the cockpit locker and the sink waste will be plumbed into it. We will be able to pump that out either at a harbour pump-out station (some places have a pump out boat that can come out to boats in anchorages) or into the sea.

I like that this step forward improves things for now, and most of it is going to be useful for the long-term.