2013-01-07 — The Tale Of Black-Water Jack (Part II)

Tunnel Vision is a dangerous thing. Not living aboard gives us plenty of time to visualize how something is going to work. I spend days before getting to the boat making diagrams and “imagining” how a cable, wire or in this case a hose is going to be routed. Sometimes having it worked out  in your brain before hand can be a determent. Take the below example. Before I installed one valve or hose I “knew” how it was all going to go together. As you can see hose is bent this way and that way and routed here and there, all because I “knew” how it was going together. Granted the moment I looked at the below I was not happy, but it was right all because that is how I “knew” it would go together.

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After a week away from the boat I came back and realized immediately if I swap the connections on the Y-Valve and slightly adjusted the mounting of the valves I would have a much much cleaner installation with less hose and less bend in the hose. So much happier I was finally able to get my eyes outside the tunnel! Below you can see the same re-configured cabinet!

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Granted the functionality of the system did not change at all but I wanted to try and align the functional drawing a little better to the physical so that when I am old and grey I have half hope of understanding how this thing is suppose to work.

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With Annette’s help we pulled the remainder of the hoses and installed the sanitation pump that will be used to empty the bladder/tank.

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Below is the freshly sealed and painted tank locker. Part III will be installation of the vent fitting planned for the back of tank locker.

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