My holding tank is the stern of the boat and the inlet hose runs up hill about 15 feet away. To keep the hose free of effluent you have to pump a lot of water into the system. This soon fills tank, making it PITA to keep pumping it out. This, of course, made the hose reek.
Fred Hazzard S/V Fury C&C 44 [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stevan Plavsa Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 6:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stus-List Crossing Hoses I've gone ahead and uploaded the drawing of the new holding tank. Any advice on how to make this as fool proof as possible would be much appreciated: http://webspace.ocad.ca/~splavsa/pics/SeaSwan/2-6146.pdf Would it be best to have the fittings ON TOP of the tank? Not sure if I have the clearance under the v-berth but it seems that would be best no? I'm also concerned about effluent getting into the vent hoses. This is likely the stock tank from the 32 but I wouldn't know because the tank I removed was an "upgraded" stainless steel one. It was plumbed in with hard abs plumbing, leaking and no doubt soon to develop pinholes. It got tossed right quick. Steve C&C 32 Hull 59 Toronto On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Stevan Plavsa <[email protected]> wrote: Hi All. Was reading the head problems thread and came across someone mentioning something about crossing hoses to prevent backflow at heel. I'm going to be ordering a new holding tank for my 32 sometime soon and Kracor has the tank in stock. It's a bow tank. I was originally going to ask them to move the fitting for the inflow (from toilet) to the starboard side as that is where my head is and I dont' want really long hose runs .. but this got me thinking. On a port tack on a heel I can get backflow this way if the joker valve isn't 100%. Is it standard practice to cross the hose over to the far side of the tank to prevent this? This is where the fitting currently is on the tank that they have in stock and apparently, it was made for another C&C 32. I'm thinking that when beating to weather and changing tack back and forth there would be plenty of opportunity for waste to collect in the hose and possibly backflow regardless of which side the hose connects to. Am I overthinking this? When I purchased the boat last fall it was a stinky boat. The hoses and head smelled AWFUL so I threw it all away thinking that I was going to replace everything before launch. Well, I bought a house before launch and my financial priorities changes so I didn't get a holding tank into the boat this year. It's one of the winter projects and I want to make sure I do it right because I worked hard at "de-stinkifying" the boat and I don't want any problems moving forward. Thanks all. Steve C&C 32 Hull 59 Toronto _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]
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