October 2008 Watermaker Install

October 2008 has been a busy month with boat preparations. We went to Ft Lauderdale and had a new mainsail made for the boat, had our compass re-built and made the big purchase of a water maker. This device takes sea water and turns it into drinkable water for our tanks. In the islands you have to pay for water and the water you get is sometimes questionable so this was one item we wanted make sure we had before we left. The unit makes 8 gallons of water each hour it is run.

The following are pictures from the install:

This is the first day with tools everywhere....the project would end up taking a whole week! During the install I had to cut a few holes with the hole saw.......and you will never guess what happened........

So I lined up the hole saw and started in drilling a hole for the hoses to go into the engine room but when I saw light it was not the engine room but the shower....I said some words of disappointment and all Angela said was "is it above the waterline or below"! I said "it is above unless your taking a shower"!

Picture to the left is the hole in the bottom of the shower being repaired. Picture to the right is the new hole with hoses run and the "patch job" in the walkway of the first hole. The fixing of the two holes took a whole day away from the project at hand.....but the fix does not leak!!!

These are some of the valves I had to install, left is in the engine room and to the right is the valves and unit in the walk through.

This is the water maker all finished up. It fired right up on the first test and started making water! Pretty amazing machines even though the install was a bear.....but doing it myself we really saved $$ and I sure know how it is all put together!