In my last post I asked that you leave a comment as to what a big HOORAY meant. The answer....we found the source of our 'head' ...nautical term for bathroom for you landlubbers...odors. My niece Lindsay solved the puzzle! Yea Lindz.
It ends up that the toilet was not the culprit at all and yes I have apologized to it profusely for falsely accusing it. There is a piece of equipment in a boat called a shower sump which collects 'grey' water from the shower.
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| This is the new sump the white and blue 'float' is what hung up on the old one. It was pretty nasty too so no pictures to assault your eyes. |
Since we are in a harbor where we have access to land showers we do not shower on the boat. This is a big water saver and allows us to survive for 2+ weeks on 240 gallons of water and saves us from having to go up to the water dock to fill up with water. But before we got here we did shower on the boat. SO, anyway, our shower sump was of course ancient and Gary totally remembers me saying it'll do we don't need to spend money on a new one....famous last words!
It seems that the sump which hides under the raised floor in the bilge had a float that was hanging up and the water was overflowing into the bilge. After taking everything out and apart we found that previous owners had drilled holes for numerous other pumps into the floor which is over the keel. WELL.....the keel is full of some sort of stuff that reacted in a nauseously odorous manner with that sump water and voilà we are transported to the land of super stink.
Once again, Gary gets the good job....although I always offer :-).........after 2 days of sucking yucky water up with a shop vac he filled the screw holes with silicone and put screws in them to seal them up.
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| The problem......Screw holes above hose |
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| Screwing new screws in silicone filled holes |
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Covering the holes with marine sealant |
Another project down the tubes!
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