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Charcoal vented

rickdowe2

rickdowe2

Richard Dowe
Taken a note from Practical Sailor I constructed a charcoal vent for the black water tank. Someone in my group doesn't like the smell of a flushing toilet with morning coffee.
The project only took 30 minutes to put together once all the materials were rounded up.
12" of 2" pvc
2" end cap
2 " threaded adapter
2" threaded cap
Gray tubing adapters
Inexpensive stainless mesh strainer
Thin scotchbrite pad
Charcoal from Amazon 16oz should do.

The pictures tell the story. After cutting the pipe I heated the strainer mesh and let it melt into the pvc. I than cut and filed the mesh so I could glue on the end cap after I drilled and tapped for the hose adapter. I cut a piece of scotchbrite and pushed it down the pvc against the mesh. I also glued the threaded adapter in place. On the threaded cap I drilled and tapped the end, on the inside I cut a piece of 2" thin wall pvc I had for a spacer ,1/4". I placed that piece against the inside of the cap along with a piece of mesh and scotebrite. I filled the unit with charcoal and screwed the cover on. DONE
 

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Very nice, Rick, thanks for sharing that. I worked for many years in rural Alaska and I think you should be given high marks for “bush engineering” a nice elegant solution with the materials at hand.

The photo of it mounted: is that under the sink counter in the head? And/or where is it mounted?

Have you or “Someone in your group” been able to detect any improvement in air quality?

Cheers,
Mark
 
Thanks Mark,I knew that question would come up, a good segway into the other work that made that picture look so nice.
I installed all new sewer hose and a mascerator pump in the wet locker fwd of the nav station. Next to the charcoal vent in the overhead is a ignition switch that allows a person to choose a momentary or constant on voltage to the pump.
I also redid the deck connections. Morgan did not cut away the core and refill with material. Lucky no water intrusion.
The boat is scheduled to go into the water the 31st of this month. I will let you know how it works.
 

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Rick

For a number of years we had a store bought version of your vent filter installed in the same wet locker. Our conclusion was that it had little effect on what came out of the vent fitting. If we were sitting in the cockpit with our morning coffee and a light breeze came up from aft, our total enjoyment of the moment would be ruined. That may have also been related to the personal product our filter was asked to accommodate. The unit has since been relegated to the "nice idea" storage box located in the attic.

Jim
 
Hey Jim, I have a friend who keeps his motorboat in a slip and last year he installed a filter made in Canada called Big Orange. He said it works, nothing but a large amount of charcoal he said. He felt it was his duty to install one living so close to other boats. We will see. Is your boat in the water yet? I was down to Rockland last week and only saw 2 sailboats.
 
Rick
When the filter didn't live up to it's name, we switched to squirting a bit of that blue toilet deodorant in the bowl after a few cycles. That appears to work.Either that or we haven't had any tail winds lately.

We were launched earlier last week. Dana is looking good. Our plan is to go to the SSCA Gam at Essex, CT in June, then head down East with stops in Block Is., Newport, Scituit, Boston, Marblehead, then Maine. We have to be back home the second week in August so our journey may not be too ambitious.

Are you still planning to come down this way? I'm sure we can cross paths along the way.

Jim
 
Hi Rick - I just realized your are in Rockland, Maine. What a great spot! I did that Outward Bound sailing/survival class back when I was 17 (shockingly, 40 years ago!) out of Vinalhaven. In the month we covered everything between the New Hampshire border and Cross Island, Canada. Such a great cruising grounds you have there. We had Zia up in the Canadian Gulf Islands, British Columbia and it really reminded me of the coast of Maine.

My long term goal is to bring Zia through the canal & up to Maine. A fellow in our yacht club did that last year on his Halberg-Rassy which is around the same size as our boats.
 
Mark

When you come up the East Coast, you are going to have a lot of friends to stop and visit. Better plan on a slow trip to maine.

Jim
 
Jim, indeed, when I can make that dream come true I look forward to meeting a bunch of “right coast” morganeers, yourself included. And visiting my dear Dad in Annapolis. He conveniently lives on the water and Zia would look super fine moored in front of his house.;)
 
Morning Mark, yes Penobscot Bay is a great place to sail. Steve Ruell is from this area as well in Belfast, 45 minutes away by car 4 hours way by boat.
I don’t believe the Outward bound program runs anymore. I have gone past Hurricane Island and looked for information on them and not much is to be found. Did you pick up sailing from your parents or Outward bound?
I went to Carvers harbor at Vinalhaven last year, not a inviting spot for a sailboat it is definitely a working harbor. Foxbough Thoughfair is fun so is Muscle ridge.
 
i dont understand how my photo got here. Honest i did not mean for this to be here lee nicholas
 
Lee - I'm not sure what you're seeing, but you don't have a photo posted here.

Rick - I started sailing with my Dad when I was probably around 10 years old. Hurricane Island Outward Bound was a life changing experience, though. There were 12 of us on an open 30 ft sailboat for a month. No cabin, no head, no berths. We slept on oars spread on the deck and rowed when the wind stopped. No shelter from the rain or sun. Hiked our butts over the rail when nature called, which was not a natural thing to do in front of 11 other crew members ;-)

It was as much about human interactions as it was survival or sailing. Boats like Zia or VaBene’ would sail by (with cabins, running water, heaters, heads, engines, refrigerators, and charcoal vents!) and I would just look at them thinking that must be heaven. And now we have our own little piece of heaven. ;)
 
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Great memories...Wild Oats was that boat for us as well. Sailing with my dad at four in San Diego’s Mission Bay occasionally venturing out to the Point Loma lighthouse. This was before there was even a freeway it was heaven. By the time I was in my twenties I had been through two boats a twenty-two and an Ericsson 34. The Morgan 382 was the dream boat. Glad we had the last ten years on one.
 
Morning Jim, I will keep you posted on my travels this year maybe we can hookup.
Mark, after going onto Outward bound website I remember sailing past the two masted open boats this last year. I see they have the same adventures for “older” people. At this stage of my life just can’t see doing a “direct deposit “ in front of others.
John I wish I had started earlier sailing. Some of my grandkids are starting to like it.
 
Two years ago on a trip to Maine, we were heading south through Muscle Ridge Channel. There was no wind so we were motoring along. Coming towards us heading North was rather strange looking two masted open boat. They passed us close aboard with a crowd of what looked like teenaged kids who were singing and laughing and waving hello to us. The amazing thing, to us, was that their boat was sailing along nicely while we felt the need to motor along.

Jim
 
Rick

Could that be an Outward Bound ghost ship with a crew of wayward teens condemned to sail the Muscle Ridge Channel forever without a head?

Jim
 
It’s funny, people always thought we were juvenile delinquents on some kind of character building saga as a way out of prison. That was all true except the prison part: we were juvenile delinquents on a saga, but we actually paid money to be tortured like that. ;)
 
rickdowe2 said:
Morning Jim, I will keep you posted on my travels this year maybe we can hookup.
Mark, after going onto Outward bound website I remember sailing past the two masted open boats this last year. I see they have the same adventures for “older” people. At this stage of my life just can’t see doing a “direct deposit “ in front of others.
John I wish I had started earlier sailing. Some of my grandkids are starting to like it.
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That is great. A lot of sail makers have commented on the trend of no younger people in the numbers of yesterday taking up sailing. Fortunately the trend is tiny house “sailing” young people are starting blogs. Not wha5 we remember but at least they are getting out there and enjoying the rewards.
 
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