MY LAST UNDISCOVERED FRONTIER ON WTD (I think)

[Crave1957]

Hello All,

Well, after a year of basically restoring our 1984 Sea Ray I am truly still new and learning every time I am on the boat. Yesterday my daughter's plane was late so I had 5 -6 hours to clean, poke around and chill on WTD. New automatic stern bilge back by the drain plug is fabricated and ready to wire (I laid awake at night on this one), stared at engines looking for mystery serial number (no luck), cleaned all the unneeded stuff from summer, stuffed and contorted my body everywhere notating electrical wire routing, siliconed a bit more on stations and water fill, duct taped starboard window to help with elimination process of where the F___G water is entering, tried unsuccessfully, to loosen thermostat nut (rusted shut), took measurements..........and on we go. Felt great to have the time, I feel like I am starting to understand how systems all tie together.

THEN OF COURSE I FOUND A NEW PROBLEM.... step-down pump (not an inline pump) is located in the aft cabin under plexiglass on top of which is a functioning booze box! I spotted water and start digging. Here is the problem and my question. Known fact the starboard window leaks and drains into the bathroom scupper. Since the bathroom is designed to function as a shower I assumed it drained into some type of holding tank. But under the plexiglass there is room for a small pump and maybe gallon or so of water. The pump has an ineffective float switch pumping water out to its seacock which then seems to back flow.

MY QUESTION IS SIMPLE .... Is this my entire waste water holding tank? What is under the aft cabin bed - no access? There has to be more to this as they wouldn't design it this way....would they, what am I missing. OH BOY

Thanks,
Mike

 

[kbsunlovers]

That's your shower sump, Michael. The drain from the head floor drains there, and it'll pick up water elsewhere towards the bow. Clean it a couple times a year, particularly if Amber is using a lot of soap in the shower. Get the float switch working, you're good to go.

Your head & galley sinks should be going overboard. Macerator to the holding tank.

B

 

[Crave1957]

Well ok..... chasing down water is kind of like trapping moles and gophers! I so far am more effective with the critters. Amber can just shower elsewhere anyway! I just need to check the auto my guess is its not working

 

[mistercomputerman]

Use this water level switch and throw away the float switch:

http://www.waterwitchinc.com/new/SiteElements/Pages/SecondaryPages/Products/BilgeSwitches.html

 

[BlewByYou88]

My boat had this setup as well, and I'm not a fan of water just sitting under my aft berth. It doesn't always work right, but I put a sump box back there as well as a bilge pump. Got to Post #68 in my thread, you can see what I did.

http://clubsearay.com/showthread.php/39163-To-ease-the-Cabin-Fever?highlight=

 

[manny4608]

Hey Mike, you want to make sure you switch on the step down pump before using any of your sinks or shower, the switch should be located on your panel at the helm, the float switch in the sump well will do the rest.

Cheers
Manny