Kenneth Grahame wrote "There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats"
Mr. Adventure would have to agree--he even loves the repair & maintenance jobs. He has had a few such jobs in the past couple of weeks. He continues to replace every halogen light with LED lights. The LED lights use 1/8th the amount of electricity than the halogen lights. We have to be very conscious of power since we are often away from a source of electricity and depend on our batteries to supply what energy we use.
Mr. Adventure most recently replaced the lights in the galley. They look good and are far more efficient.
Another task Mr. Adventure completed was to paint the switches in the 12volt electrical panel. He painted all the switches that we must turn on when the engines are running a bright neon yellow. This helps me enormously because I am seriously mechanically, electrically challenged, but I know my colors.
Every time we leave the boat, we fill up the water tank. The last two times we have returned, we have noticed that the water level had dropped drastically while we were not aboard. We were fortunate to have turned off the water heater--a burned out water heater would have been a difficult and expensive repair. After checking the engine room and all the water lines, Mr. Adventure found the leak in our bathroom. He found that a 90 degree connector in the quest water pipe had gone bad. A fine mist of water was slowly depleting our water tank. After a quick trip to Home Depot, we had all the supplies to repair this troublesome leak.
It pays to be handy if you are going to get into boating! Way to go Steve!!!
joy
Mr. Adventure would have to agree--he even loves the repair & maintenance jobs. He has had a few such jobs in the past couple of weeks. He continues to replace every halogen light with LED lights. The LED lights use 1/8th the amount of electricity than the halogen lights. We have to be very conscious of power since we are often away from a source of electricity and depend on our batteries to supply what energy we use.
Mr. Adventure most recently replaced the lights in the galley. They look good and are far more efficient.
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| The before picture. |
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| New LED |
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| Cabinet with all the shelves removed--to find hidden pipes |
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| The leak is in here--it is a close fit |
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| Tools laid out on the bed among all the items we had to remove from the shelves |
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| Beneath the bench in the shower is more of the water pipe |
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| It is amazing how much stuff was in there. |
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| Bad joint |
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| How do they come up with the names of these things? |
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| All done! |
joy
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