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 […]
Tank Tender, Dorade Guards and Mast Pulpits
Tank Tender One of the previous owners installed a Tank Tender for checking the level of the diesel tank and the single water tank that was original to this boat. The Tank Tender uses air pressure through a little tube that goes into the tank. The excess air pressure bleeds off until the air pressure […]
Installing Water Tanks
When we bought SVRO it had one stainless steel water tank with about 100 gallons capacity. Unfortunately, it leaked. Before we moved onto the boat full-time we took the leaky tank out and ordered two poly roto-molded tanks from Ronco. Time ran short and we never fully installed the water tanks.
Fall Projects
I know, I know…we haven’t posted in a loooong time. When I sat down to write this post I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about because I didn’t think we had worked on many projects around the boat. I recently bought an Aeropress coffee maker and was going to write about that. […]
Tank fiasco
So we haven’t talked much about the water tanks lately, mainly because we’re hooked up directly to the dock water and don’t really think about them too much. We had one leaky, 90 gallon, stainless steel tank that lived in our bilge. We removed that and bought one 48 gallon and one 36 gallon poly […]
Water Snobs
I’ve come to find that we are water snobs. I’m talking drinking water. The water in Folsom is amazing. It tastes great, it’s not hard, and has really low total dissolved solids. It’s so good that Kikkoman (you know, the soy sauce people) has a manufacturing plant there precisely because the water is so good.
What a day!
With our failure to accomplish anything last Sunday fresh in our minds, we were determined to make progress today…and we did! Our goal: pull out the 36 year old, ~100 gallon, stainless steel water tank.
Chugging Along
With the refrigerator almost finished, we decided to tackle the holding tank. We’ve really been dreading removing all the old plumbing (yuck!) In the picture above you can see the two black hoses that we cut off and holding tank just under them.