Bolo
Contributing Partner
Hello all and especially those on the Chesapeake who attended the Ericson get together. We want to come but had some other commitments that weekend. Maybe we'll make the next one. Now to my question.
We are new owners of an Ericson 32 MKIII (1987) and as many of you Ericson owners know, who have boats in that range, there are a lot of hoses in the head. The locker under our sink is just a jungle with them and the sea cocks and valves that many are connected to so that everything flows the way it should. To add to it, one of the previous owners of our boat added a deck wash and the pump and more hoses are in the same cabinet. It's a bit difficult to open the sea cock for the sink drain.
The pump on our head is also leaking a bit and I have plans to rebuild it. Because we can't dump into the bay, and never would want to, and have no future plans (at the moment) to ocean sail outside the restricted dumping areas - I was thinking on eliminating some of the unnecessary hoses when I rebuild the head. I did the same thing on a Hunter 285 we owned and it worked out quite well. As far as the extra hole for the waste dump went I capped the old gate valve.
In the case of our Ericson I was going to just run a hose (the same hose) to both of the unused through hulls. (Sort of a road to no where.) Remove the "Y" valve and make a direct run to the waste tank from the head. Anyone ever done something like this? I figure that this will give us a lot more room in the cabinet and get around any problems the coast guard might have with us having any chance of dumping our waste in the bay. :0305_alar Thoughts?
Bob Skalkowski
Ericson 32 MKIII
"Vesper"
Port Annapolis
We are new owners of an Ericson 32 MKIII (1987) and as many of you Ericson owners know, who have boats in that range, there are a lot of hoses in the head. The locker under our sink is just a jungle with them and the sea cocks and valves that many are connected to so that everything flows the way it should. To add to it, one of the previous owners of our boat added a deck wash and the pump and more hoses are in the same cabinet. It's a bit difficult to open the sea cock for the sink drain.
The pump on our head is also leaking a bit and I have plans to rebuild it. Because we can't dump into the bay, and never would want to, and have no future plans (at the moment) to ocean sail outside the restricted dumping areas - I was thinking on eliminating some of the unnecessary hoses when I rebuild the head. I did the same thing on a Hunter 285 we owned and it worked out quite well. As far as the extra hole for the waste dump went I capped the old gate valve.
In the case of our Ericson I was going to just run a hose (the same hose) to both of the unused through hulls. (Sort of a road to no where.) Remove the "Y" valve and make a direct run to the waste tank from the head. Anyone ever done something like this? I figure that this will give us a lot more room in the cabinet and get around any problems the coast guard might have with us having any chance of dumping our waste in the bay. :0305_alar Thoughts?
Bob Skalkowski
Ericson 32 MKIII
"Vesper"
Port Annapolis