Sunset Thoughts

Sometimes I find myself wondering if all this is worth it. So far, all the work I've done hasn't really paid off in any way that I can see. But then yesterday I saw this sunset from my slip at the marina. I realized that in a few weeks I'll be living aboard Algún Día and I'll get the see alot more sunsets. I guess I'm really Living the Dream whatever that is.

Installing the Air Conditioner

Before......



And after.....

Water System Part Deux

Still working on the water system...



I wanted to replace the hose connected to the water tank, but first had to drain all the water out. This was accomplished by letting the water pour into my bilge. Yes I intentionally dumped water into the bilge! It was a good test for that automatic bilge pump I installed. Let's hope I never have to use it so much again.



Here is the shiny new hose connected to the tank. It's the smaller one in the background. The large hose in the foregound is the water intake. It comes from an inlet on the deck. You can barely see the old hose (black) coiled up in the top part of the picture. It was getting pretty old an needed to be replaced.



Here is my "new" water heater. I had to take out the old one because it wasn't rated for the electricity of my boat. This one holds about 2 gallons of hot water and runs off of AC power.


Here I'm putting together the shutoff valve that will be between my water tank and water pump. It's good to have new water hoses in the boat. You don't want to know what the old ones looked like.

Back to work...

After taking a weekend "off" from the boat, I'm back at it. I have about 3 weekends left to get the boat ready for liveaboard. The last big obstacle to overcome will be the water system. Here is the hole I had to cut for the new head faucet.



Looks pretty good. The nozzle pulls out to become a shower.