Capt. JG wrote:
"cavelamb" wrote in message
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I had to go up and reinstall an errant jib halyard today.

Now I know why a kitten stuck in a tree waits for the fire department
to come get him down...

It's not so much the height - as the sway...



Yeah. I would rather pay someone else to do that if at all possible.



Naw, it was ok, just scary as hell.

I'll pay someone to replace the holding tank hose...

"cavelamb" wrote in message
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Capt. JG wrote:
"cavelamb" wrote in message
m...
I had to go up and reinstall an errant jib halyard today.

Now I know why a kitten stuck in a tree waits for the fire department
to come get him down...

It's not so much the height - as the sway...



Yeah. I would rather pay someone else to do that if at all possible.



Naw, it was ok, just scary as hell.

I'll pay someone to replace the holding tank hose...


Heh...

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I'll pay someone to replace the holding tank hose...


Heh...

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My solution to the problem was to go to PVC. It survived our wreck - it
will surely survive anything you can throw at it in regular use.

I wasn't smart enough yet - I learned more at the aft head - so my forward
head has a small section of the best head hose there is between the toilet
and the pipe in the wall (perhaps 8" total), and at the Y (two more short
sections), one from the holding tank and the other to the through hull.
Perhaps one day I'll make up the section of PVC to take away the section at
the head; the other is a bit more challenging, so likely I'll not bother.

My gallery has detailed pix on both installations in our initial refit
section, but I'm a bit pushed for time, so I apologize for not having the
specific section/pix to direct you to see it.

Suffice to say that there are NO hose points in my aft head. "Head smell"
is a thing of the past on Flying Pig, forever. WAY cheaper than that fancy
hose, too, and a full 1.5" inside...

L8R

Skip

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Flying Pig wrote:
I'll pay someone to replace the holding tank hose...

Heh...

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My solution to the problem was to go to PVC. It survived our wreck - it
will surely survive anything you can throw at it in regular use.

I wasn't smart enough yet - I learned more at the aft head - so my forward
head has a small section of the best head hose there is between the toilet
and the pipe in the wall (perhaps 8" total), and at the Y (two more short
sections), one from the holding tank and the other to the through hull.
Perhaps one day I'll make up the section of PVC to take away the section at
the head; the other is a bit more challenging, so likely I'll not bother.

My gallery has detailed pix on both installations in our initial refit
section, but I'm a bit pushed for time, so I apologize for not having the
specific section/pix to direct you to see it.

Suffice to say that there are NO hose points in my aft head. "Head smell"
is a thing of the past on Flying Pig, forever. WAY cheaper than that fancy
hose, too, and a full 1.5" inside...

L8R

Skip


I read that in a previous message, Skip.
But I haven't dug through all your photos in quite a while.
Someday you need to organize and index that mess!
That will keep until you retire, though.

A question?

How does one connect to the tank outlet and (in my case) macerator
pump inlet using PVC?

"Flying Pig" wrote in message
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I'll pay someone to replace the holding tank hose...


Heh...

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www.sailnow.com



My solution to the problem was to go to PVC. It survived our wreck - it
will surely survive anything you can throw at it in regular use.

I wasn't smart enough yet - I learned more at the aft head - so my forward
head has a small section of the best head hose there is between the toilet
and the pipe in the wall (perhaps 8" total), and at the Y (two more short
sections), one from the holding tank and the other to the through hull.
Perhaps one day I'll make up the section of PVC to take away the section
at the head; the other is a bit more challenging, so likely I'll not
bother.

My gallery has detailed pix on both installations in our initial refit
section, but I'm a bit pushed for time, so I apologize for not having the
specific section/pix to direct you to see it.

Suffice to say that there are NO hose points in my aft head. "Head smell"
is a thing of the past on Flying Pig, forever. WAY cheaper than that
fancy hose, too, and a full 1.5" inside...

L8R

Skip

--
Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig KI4MPC
See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery !
Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog
and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to
make it come true. You may have to work for it however."
(and)
"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in
its hand
(Richard Bach)



I thought about converting to the PVC solution, but there's currently no
problem, so I'm going to wait until the hoses need to be changed.


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www.sailnow.com

On 12/13/09 3:19 PM, cavelamb wrote:
I had to go up and reinstall an errant jib halyard today.

Now I know why a kitten stuck in a tree waits for the fire department
to come get him down...

It's not so much the height - as the sway...

And the lightning.

"cavelamb" wrote in message
m...
I had to go up and reinstall an errant jib halyard today.

Now I know why a kitten stuck in a tree waits for the fire department
to come get him down...

It's not so much the height - as the sway...


Now think about a sixteen-year-old girl doing that in the great Southern
Ocean...

Tom

Tom Dacon wrote:
"cavelamb" wrote in message
m...
I had to go up and reinstall an errant jib halyard today.

Now I know why a kitten stuck in a tree waits for the fire department
to come get him down...

It's not so much the height - as the sway...


Now think about a sixteen-year-old girl doing that in the great Southern
Ocean...

Tom



girl, boy?

When i was 16 free climbing the mast to scare my parents was great fun.

"cavelamb" wrote in message
m...
Tom Dacon wrote:
"cavelamb" wrote in message
m...
I had to go up and reinstall an errant jib halyard today.

Now I know why a kitten stuck in a tree waits for the fire department
to come get him down...

It's not so much the height - as the sway...


Now think about a sixteen-year-old girl doing that in the great Southern
Ocean...

Tom



girl, boy?

When i was 16 free climbing the mast to scare my parents was great fun.

I'm pretty sure you were doing it at the dock or in mild conditions. I've
spent a little time at the masthead myself underway, taking pictures and
generally enjoying the scenery, but I've been up there other times when I
came down exhausted and black and blue all over my chest and the insides of
my thighs. What I was thinking about when I made my original comment was the
latest of the stunt around-the-world sailors, Zac Sunderland's 16-year-old
younger sister, who's putting together a non-stop around-the-world voyage,
and imagining her having to do that in heavy wind and large seas down in the
roaring 40's. If you've read any accounts of single-handed stunts like that,
you've read about some of those occasions.

Tom

On Dec 13, 3:19*pm, cavelamb wrote:
I had to go up and reinstall an errant jib halyard today.

Now I know why a kitten stuck in a tree waits for the fire department
to come get him down...

It's not so much the height - as the sway...

You ever see a cat skeleton up in a tree?

Chris