This was a day bummed off work to hang around the boats, just making sure all would be well. (Never underestimate how good it is to have a sailor for a boss!) Deb left the marina before me to get some work done on the house. (It hits the market next week, which is kind of exciting.) I poked around the head / holding tank / pump out trying to figure out where the water was coming from that was seeping back through the head, leaking onto the floor, flowing down to the sump tank, and eventually dripping into the bilge we worked so hard to clean. The port side of The Tartan has two deck fittings marked "WASTE". First appearances is that the only one actually connected to a waste holding tank is the forward one, which wasn't closed tight, opening the way for the water ending up in the bilge.
So I decided motoring The Tartan over to the pump-out station was the quickest fix. I know there must be other problems as well - holding tank water should not end up in the bilge; record rain or no. But I ran out of weekend, so these will have to be a problems solved on a different day.
Though the flood is hard on a lot of folks for a lot of reasons, this is sure a good time for a newbie to practice driving. With Schmitty and Bill along to handle lines and offer advice we eased away from the pier in a steady rain. Idle was all we needed to push the flood-muck gently aside, coast up through the finger piers, hook a 180, and glide up to the hose. After sucking gallons of rain water out of the holding tank Schmitty allowed as, since there was so much lake to play in, I could just swing The Tartan around and motor back. But when the lake returns to normal there will not be near the room; so I decided to practice. Trying to look like I knew what I was about I bumped into reverse with the intent of backing all the way out, around a reverse 180, trundle stern first between the finger piers, and back to home plate.
And by golly, that's exactly what we did. So the mystery of where the water was coming from is solved, but a new mystery of just what deck fittings go to where takes its place. There are 3 marked "WATER", 2 "WASTE", and 1 "DIESEL". But so far as I have figured it out there are 4 water tanks, 1 holding tank, with the diesel tank being the only one I have a handle on. It's a puzzle.
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5 comments:
Bill,
There are 4 water tanks in the Tartan 42. There are 2 forward on the bow (40g and 25g) 40g is on the port side. The Main (79g) is amidships starboard. The aft starboard tank is 20g. Starboard waste is aft of the main water tank and the tank is under the chart table. I don't have a forward tank any more because a put a lexascan class A MSD.
ed
I thought there was 4 water tanks, the one behind the chart table has never been used on this boat and the handle is missing on the manifold. (I plan on putting it back in service.) The number of tanks = the number of deck fittings, but the labels don't match. 3 / 4 for water; 2 / 1 for waste. Its hard to believe Tartan wold mislabel the fittings, but maybe they did. We are trying to get a manual from Tartan to help figuring this stuff out.
This is Tim by the way, not Deb. I'm on her computer and forgot to sign in/out.
If you can't get a manual from Tartan I have one if you want a copy.
Do you have 2 water intakes in the bow?
Is this the Tartan that was redecked recently?
I wonder if the water inlets were combined in the bow during the redecking. It would be easy to do because the inlets are only about 2 feet apart.
ed
Tim,
Did you ever find the other water intake and do you want a copy of the manual?
ed
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