Dave and Petra
New Member
I hope it's OK to start a general thread for our refit questions and photos. I fear I will have too many questions for a separate thread for each. Please let me know if this doesn't work for the group.
Covid kick my butt for the last few weeks, so no progress of significance. Still chasing termites, but they have migrated into the gunnels. Currently we are removing jib tracks, anchor hardware and a solar arch to remove the infected wood.
Soon we will have a blank slate to rebuild.
Being new owners of a morgan 38 we have some ideas. I would like to run them past the experienced members here for vetting.
For example: The boat has a drainage system with a large diameter tube port to starboard above the waterline near the stern. Currently the deck drains feef into it. It also had the shower drain pump, and a manual pump from the frige plumbed into it.
The bilge pump currently has a dedicated hose fitting that empties out just under the gunnel near the stern starboard side and into any dingy tied up alongside. Usually my dingy and I haven't learned to park elsewhere yet.
Question: Is there any reason the bilge pump should not simply feed into the deck drainage system ?
Covid kick my butt for the last few weeks, so no progress of significance. Still chasing termites, but they have migrated into the gunnels. Currently we are removing jib tracks, anchor hardware and a solar arch to remove the infected wood.
Soon we will have a blank slate to rebuild.
Being new owners of a morgan 38 we have some ideas. I would like to run them past the experienced members here for vetting.
For example: The boat has a drainage system with a large diameter tube port to starboard above the waterline near the stern. Currently the deck drains feef into it. It also had the shower drain pump, and a manual pump from the frige plumbed into it.
The bilge pump currently has a dedicated hose fitting that empties out just under the gunnel near the stern starboard side and into any dingy tied up alongside. Usually my dingy and I haven't learned to park elsewhere yet.
Question: Is there any reason the bilge pump should not simply feed into the deck drainage system ?