Water Tank.

Coming off of our first weekend trip on the boat we got a better idea of things we needed or things that could be fixed to work better (ex. Stove) but one of the biggest things I missed was having running water. It was a pain not to be able to properly wash dishes or fill a pot. We have been avoiding installing out flexible water tank for over a year. Firstly we had no clue where to put the blasted thing.

Once we went through the whole rigmarole of buying two rigid water tanks only to discover we had no way to get them in the boat, they were too big, measure twice people. So we had to rearrange our schematics and plans for where we would fit the bladder tank. We ended up deciding that under the V berth would be best.

The next problem was that the v berth had no fill fitting in the deck. We have three fresh water fills on the deck, one in the cockpit, one in Aislinn's room and one in the head. Of course none have ever been hooked up to anything and none of them really worked for where we were putting our tank.

This picture above is of the fill fitting in the head, which is the closest to the tank. Of course we couldn't have it permanently set up to that one, or there would be a giant hose running right through the head, makes things a bit awkward. But we came up with the solution that we would leave the hose coiled up on the tank and plugged when we were through filling it and only attach it to the deck fitting when we needed to actually fill it. Works so far.

                                    

Mark had already had all the plumbing done and run for the tank to the faucets and shower all he needed to do was run electrical wire to the pump and we were off and running. Miraculously everything worked perfectly, first try too.

Now we are all set for our next overnight trip.