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Date:Wed, 27 Oct 2021 03:26 GMT
Water Heater
Today was fix the hot water heater. The one that blew
a seal previously. The seal came in and we installed it this evening.
Even though I thought
I had turned off the water entering into the heater it turns out that water
was still leaking into it through the mixing valve that sets the temprature.
So There was pressure on the gasket so that I couldn't get it open. Then
when I finally got it loose it was spurting again and then dumped 5 gallons
into the bilge setting off the bilge pump. The bilge pump then didn't work
because it had been dry so long that it was not primed. Scared us as I
thought we were going to have to buy a new bilge pump. But thankfully it
finally primed after several minutes of convincing it. There I was head
first into the bilge arms up to my elbows in bilge water trying to get the
hose to get the pump to prime. Of course this is after dark by flashlight.
Finally back to the hot water heater I managed to coax the heating element
out of the hole, put the new seal on it and get it back together. I
tightened it down but aparently not tight enough because it started spurting
again scaring me a second time. A couple more turns on the wrench and it was
set solid. It seemed to take forever to fill but fill it did and in about
15 min we had blazing hot water. Cleaning up so Hannah would have a floor
before she got back with the laundry Sam and I got everything back together
just in time. Oh and of course there is tape on the teak deck right where
Hannah was coming in as we were caulking teak today so it was hard for her
not to step on the new caulk but thanks to Sam's idea about surrounding the
area we were working on with tape no one stepped on it. Hannah declared we
had created a cat trap but no cat. And one more thing, the fish wind sock that
we had was outside tied up waiting to be hoisted up the flag halyard but
decided to go swimming with his other fish friends so we lost the pretty
gold fish windsock. Oh well. It is a blustery evening and the boat is
rocking for bedtime.