Winter Projects - Holding Tank
22 November 2007
• AYC on the hard
by Mike
This is another of those part projects, or rather, a project that had already been started, in this case by no fewer than two previous owners, but had never been finished.
When we first bought the boat I was in a quandry trying to figue out how we were going to install a holding tank. Although not a universal requirement, it is only a matter of time before it will be mandatory on all boats and Nelleke didn't seem to have anywhere to put one. At least nowhere that I could easily get at. I was more than pleasantly surprised when, while installing something else, I found that the builders had already installed a holding tank. It just wasn't connected to either of the heads. This then is the holding tank project. I have already installed a Y-valve in the forward head and I need to connect the spare output to the holding tank.
There will be additional work required: I'll need to install an air vent, a deck pump-out fitting, and I'm also considering a macerator pump to pump out the tank at sea through a through hull fillting.
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