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Plumbing Sink Faucets

Posted by Bryan on Tuesday, April 2, 2013, In : Fresh water plumbing

It always seems like it will only take a few minutes to make the connections. But then, you have to make a hole bigger, or move a different pipe to get to the first pipe. Or perhaps the engine exhaust is in the way, or the sound insulation, etc....

My dad came up and helped me a great deal getting the fresh water all finished. Only the outside shower is left, just waiting for warm weather to do that.

New faucets in the heads, and the kitchen sink. All the sinks are used, but polished up. T...
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Fresh water filter

Posted by Bryan on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, In : Fresh water plumbing

I installed my fresh water filters, pump, and pressure tank. The wall to the right has the tow handles that control which tank the water comes from, and if I desire, what tank I can pump back to. Blue pipes are filtered water, white is non filtered.

I have 2 shark byte fittings, and if I undo those, and the screws holding in the equipment, I can take it all out in one chunk if I need to.

The filters are standard home water filters that you can get at any home hardware type store. They will h...
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Plumbing manifold

Posted by Bryan on Monday, January 14, 2013, In : Fresh water plumbing

My son and I created the "Decopus". A 10 legged monster that was annoying to make, but should make life pretty nice. The 2 valvues are 5 way valves. There are 4 lines in, with one out. (or 4 out and one in). This will be where we control our water distribution on the boat. The top one will be the "in". One line from each tank (3), plus an extra that can be put into a bucket, or anti freeze, or a 5 gallon water bag for a short weekend trip, etc... This will lead to the pump, then the fi...
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Hot Water Tank

Posted by Bryan on Sunday, February 19, 2012, In : Fresh water plumbing

My 9 year old son helped me rebuild the Seaward 11 Gallon hot water tank. It had sat in some dirty water at some time and the insulation was shot. So we took it all apart, cleaned it up, rinsed is out and pressure tested it to see that the hot water ex-changer from the engine was sound and the tank didn't leak. All was good there. We bought a new pressure valve, Heating element (Should have taken a picture of it, looked like a coral reef with all the calcium deposits on it) and fittings f...
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Pex Plumbing??

Posted by Bryan on Monday, February 6, 2012, In : Fresh water plumbing

I have been looking into using Pex pipe for the potable water system. I will have pressure hot and cold water as well as foot pumps at all the sinks as back up. I have used Pex pipe in my house and fell in love with the ease of installation. Biggest questions I have is Copper rings or Stainless steel cinch rings. The copper compression rings are strong, but the tool to compress them is not small space user friendly. I fear getting stuck in strange places with out being able to make the c...
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Bryan Haas

bryhaas@gmail.com

Cookstown Ontario

Please feel free to contact me! I grew up on the waters of the Chesapeake sailing and fishing. I was paid to work, sail, race, and sometimes live on a 51' Hinkley (they didn't really need to pay me but they offered!). I am a high school science teacher who likes to learn by doing. Used to teach at "The Sound School" in New Haven Ct. Check it out, the most amazing on- the- water school there is. I have rebuilt smaller boats from scratch, but nothing on this scale. This is an adventure. All help is greatly appreciated.

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