Water Purification
Clean and safe drinking water is a top priority while cruising. The Acuva ArrowMax 2.0 water purifier with an advanced pre-filter is a game-changer for us. It’s been a reliable solution to ensure our water supply remains pristine. The Acuva ArrowMax 2.0 uses a UV-LED to purify the water. It inactivates 99.999% of E. coli […]
Fixing Our Stinky Sink
As any sailor knows, a clogged sink drain on a sailboat can put a damper on your maritime adventures. Whether it’s caused by food scraps, soap residue, or hair, a blocked sink can lead to inconvenience, a stinky sink and potential plumbing issues. Assessing the Situation Our galley sink has gradually been draining slower and […]
Troubleshooting Our Drinking Water Pump
Maintaining a sailboat is a constant and challenging endeavor, and when unexpected issues arise, they can disrupt your cruising life. Recently, we encountered a peculiar problem with our drinking water pump. It started to pulse and wouldn’t pump water continuously. Determined to get to the root of the issue, we decided to take matters into […]
Installing a Cockpit Shower & Deck Washdown
Cockpit Shower We’ve seen a lot of cruising boats that have a shower pump that can be used in the cockpit. We really liked that concept for a few reasons. Using the shower in the head is a bit of a chore. The curtain helps keep the water off the countertop and toilet, but there’s […]
Repairing our Isotemp Water Heater AGAIN
Having hot water on the boat is awesome. It’s hard to imagine not having a water heater. Unfortunately, we didn’t have to imagine it because our water heater broke (again) and we didn’t have hot water for about a week. And of course it happened in the middle of winter. Our Isotemp water heater is […]
Toilet Woes and General Maintenance
Waste Pump Maintenance As is bound to happen eventually, our manual toilet pump started leaking. Our Lavac toilet came with a Whale Mark V. That original pump stopped creating suction a few years ago, so we replaced it with a new Whale Mark V and bought a rebuild kit for the old one to keep […]
Cleaning Our Water Tanks
Our water tanks are fairly new. Removing the old stainless steel tank was one of the first projects we did back in 2013. That tank had at least one hole in it and the entire bottom was rusty brown. We think the old tank was about 90 gallons. The two polyethylene, rotomolded tanks we replaced […]
Cockpit Scupper Drains
To be honest I didn’t even know what a scupper was before we bought a boat. And fair warning, this post has quite a few “boaty” terms. Scupper – a hole in a ship’s side to carry water overboard from the deck We have scuppers along the bulwarks for draining water from the decks, but […]
Bilge Pump Cycle Counter, Switches & Alarms
Our boat came with two electric bilge one manual bilge pumps. The small electric pump is located at the bottom of the bilge and the larger electric pump (a Rule 3700) was located higher in the bilge near the middle of the boat in front of the old water tank. We decided to revamp the […]
Coming Clean – Installing our new shower
We live at a marina full-time. It just so happens to be a very nice marina with a very nice and new in 2015 facility that includes restrooms with showers, a laundry facility, a gym and clubhouse. Before the new building, the old restroom and showers were pretty lame. They were clean, but with only […]