Water and San Line Help

[Ctwilley]

On the Batfish, we've started a hand over hand on the water and san lines. Most appear in good condition...at least prior to pressure testing.
The toilets aren't on the list of restoration as of yet so we're drying to decide how to drain the san lines from grey water without dumping into the san tanks. Any ideas?

[Darrin]

Correy,

Dump the grey water right into the san tanks, it will save you a lot of time and clean up, restoring a comode is really easy. Even if you never use your san tanks again the little amount of grey water in the lines will not fill your tanks or hurt them at all.

To restore a comode it doesn't take much to do, unbolt the stool and check for a blanking plate (remove it if there is one present) clean and grease the ball valve and then clean the gasket and reinstall the comode and you are there. 

This will allow you to have a honey truck pump your san tank if there is anything in there (doubtful but check)

You might want to review the School of the Boat block on Tanks just to refresh your memory

Darrin

[Ctwilley]

Here's the $100,000 question...what is the best way to have the honey wagon empty the san tank? With our boat on land, access through any hatch is going to require 150 feet of hose at least. It might have to empty it from the stern as they don't like to drive next to the boat due to the soft sand.

[emeacho]

On Torsk, we entered the ballast tank on Stbd side and had a connection made to the sanitary overboard blow line.  Then, we installed a mascerating pump in the san tank and use it to pump the tank to a sewer connection made through the ballast tank inspection manhole.

I'll try to get some photos later.

[Ctwilley]

Please do! It sounds ingenious!

[Darrin]

HEY CHIEF where are the pictures for Correy??

[emeacho]

I'll see if I can dig up the photos again.  I had a hard-drive crash and the photos I had were lost.