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Yes. We have never needed the table to be folded, and I never felt it was stable in the opened position. Plus, the new table will match the salon table I made a couple years back.

Here is a pic of the salon table. I mounted it on the base of one of the bar stools.





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My wife got me a backup camera for Christmas . So far I love it  , just installed it and went out two times. It's great when u have the back under control while driving. It will be soooo much better when towing our 18' bow rider. What's also fun is u can listen to the people in the back (camera has a microfone  )
PS: I don't really us it for backing into my slip, to busy looking everywhere else besides the monitor
 

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Mike there are at least two ways to load photos. The easiest is to click on the "Insert Image" icon right above where you reply to a comment. It's the square one, third from the right. When you click on it a window opens. There are two tabs at the top. Select the one on the left "From Computer", hen go to the bottom of that window to the "Select Files" window. Then browse your computer and select the files you want and upload them into that window. Then click on "Upload Files". Bingo, you're done.
 
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In my bilge, this hose goes from the mid ship bilge into my engine compartment bilge. It drains into the bilge. Anyone know what it is? Is it from the fridge?
 
Can not tell from the picture, but there are drains from the condensor in the refrigerator and both front and rear AC Units. For what it is worth, on our 380DA, the fridge and rear AC are both plumbed to the shower sump. I think there is also a hose from the pressure relief on the water heater that might be in play. I have never looked at ours (probably blow tomorrow now that I said that).
 
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In my bilge, this hose goes from the mid ship bilge into my engine compartment bilge. It drains into the bilge. Anyone know what it is? Is it from the fridge?
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Mike,there is an overflow line coming out of the shower sump that runs from the top front starboard end of the shower sump all the way back to the rear cabin bilge pump. On my year the hose ends there and if there were an overflow (should the shower sump pump quit working) then the water would dump out back there for that pump to take it out of the boat. My guess is either a previous owner decided to extend that line through the bulkhead into your forward engine sump, or the factory just did it that way and then changed it in later years. You could try running a test by overfilling your shower sump and see if that is where the water comes out. Or just take out the access panels under the bunk and look and trace the overflow line coming from the shower sump.
 
Mike, I have the same hose and have wondered the same. Here is what I believe. The hose is either a fridge drain line or is a secondary forward AC pan drain line. When I defrost my fridge, there is a line from a collection tray under the freezer designed to move draining water. I do not know where that drains to so may that is a test we need to do also. I rarely see water coming from the line, but I do know that it happens usually in summer. I believe I have accounted for all the sump pump box hoses in the past and there was never an extra.


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For the winter I vacuumed all the water out of the bilge. When I came back there was standing water again. That is the only line I can't account for. It's always in the water so I can't tell if that's the culprit. In case you think the water could be from rain, the boat is shrink wrapped. We are now living on the boat full time in the water. And yes, in New England.
 
I am glad to report I have found the hose. After squeezing my fat ass under the spare bunk, I found the hose did come from the sump, through the bulkhead and into the engine bilge. I think there is a second one that dumps into the bilge where the vacuflush pumps are. My assumption is that when showering or doing dishes, the pump can't keep up so the overflow goes into the bilges. Maybe I need a new pump in the sump.
 
I did have the problem you are mentioning about dishes, showering, etc causing water in the forward bilge. In our model year boats I believe the sump pump hose that exits the sump pump box out the side is not properly sealed, mainly due to a poor design. I added a custom "through hole" fitting and properly sealed both sides. I can talk you through the details if you like. That solved one of the design problems with the drain box for me.


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It sounds like there may be some differences in the model years, but if it helps you search it out, on our boat, the fridge drain goes out the through hull on the starboard side. It’s the upper forward exit next to the second stateroom bilge pump through hull that is right above the rear air conditioner through hull, all of these located pretty much directly below the outlet for the galley vent. I plumbed the shower box over flow to go through a bulkhead fitting into the forward engine bilge. In my boat, there is never any water in that bilge, and now if water shows up there, I know that the shower box float switch is hung up, rather than have yuk sloshing around under the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] stateroom bunk. That happened once, 2 days after my monthly cleaning of the sump box, won’t happen again.
In the spring, the galley sink drain is going outside, the through hull will be with the group mentioned above.

What the area under the bunk looked like. Clear hose behind the pump is the overflow from the shower box
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What I Did to put the overflow back to where it makes more sense.
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Sounds like on your boats, they passed a hose through the bulkhead to do what I did. They must have gave up on that idea for some reason
 
Mark, we all could use the galley sink thru-hull mod. Post step by step pics when you do it.
 
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Instead of using a nice through fitting, they just shoved the hose through an used a ****load of silicone. How on earth did you get in there to do that? By the way that's a damn fine looking bilge!
 
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