New Flooring and Dodged a Bullet!

Pat Anderson

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We picked Daydream up today from B&J Fiberglass, which installed new teak and holly laminate flooring in the cabin. When we dropped the boat off a couple of weeks ago, there was a strong odor of gas in the cabin, and B&J, quite understandably, would not bring it inside until the gas issue was resolved. West Coast Marine to the rescue! Pete determined it was only a cracked anti-siphon valve on the pickup tube (and not a leaking gas tank) and promptly repaired it! All his occurred while we were traveling in New England!

Our teak and holly flooring is perhaps a little bit of an extravagance, but damn, it DOES look good!
 
Congrats Pat, on the new flooring and on having a boat that didn't go up in Poof. Dodged a bullet for sure. Sounds like West Coast Marine did a good one.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

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Pat, from the smell of gasoline one would assume that the leak had to do with the outboard fuel system. But please explain where one would have a "cracked anti-siphon valve on the pickup tube." Just curious (and ignorant.)

Feel free to tell me where I'm wrong.

Boris
 
I'm not Pat, but on the Moeller 23-gallon tanks I have (22) I believe the anti-siphon valve is in the fitting on top of the tank where the pickup exits the tank (where the fuel hose is attached and thence goes toward the engine).

The reason I think that is that, one, that's what I've been told by people I think know; and two, the drawing for the Moeller tanks I have lists revisions, and revision #4 says the following:

Rotate pickup & replace barb w/anti-siphon valve, 11/21/06
(I bought my tanks in 2012).

It may not be the same on all tanks of course.

Here is the drawing I'm speaking of. In this case the pickup is the fitting to the right of the drawing.

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So, all I know is what Pete from West Coast Marine told me but I assume what Sunbeam said is correct. The anti-siphon valve is probably right where the fuel line connects to the pickup tube on top of the tank. So if it is cracked, fuel would leak down into the bilge, which is what pretty much for sure happened. Just glad it was not a leaking fuel tank!
 
The flooring is PlasDeck. Patty will probably post some pix. Right now my attention is getting the antenna splitter, AIS receiver, Coastal Explorer laptop and C-80 all installed and wired up together so it all works!
 
Pat Anderson":ubc6ruqm said:
The flooring is PlasDeck. Patty will probably post some pix. Right now my attention is getting the antenna splitter, AIS receiver, Coastal Explorer laptop and C-80 all installed and wired up together so it all works!

Nice. I did Plasdeck on my 19. On my 25 I went with Lonseal. I'd say Plasdeck is better on every level but you pay for that premium!
 
The PlasDeck does look good!

Made a lot of progress today, installed the Vesper Marine antenna splitter, next is the AIS receiver. It all will feed to the Toshiba Satellite laptop with a neat USB monitor. Ordered the mount for the monitor today,

Pix when it is all installed!
 
Pat, What are your plans for a 2017 Great Loop? Starting when and from where? Are you planning on doing the whole loop in one outing, or coming home sometime and leaving your boat back east and returning to pick the loop up again?
 
Discovery":2oog1lr9 said:
Pat, What are your plans for a 2017 Great Loop? Starting when and from where? Are you planning on doing the whole loop in one outing, or coming home sometime and leaving your boat back east and returning to pick the loop up again?

Brent,

We are planning to start from Apalachicola approximately April 1st. We intend to do the Loop continuously all the way around. Flint and Leslie Firestone have said they would like to do the Loop again in their Venture (the first time they did in a large trawler), so we may be cruising together, we would definitely prefer cruising the Loop with some other people. Are you and Dixie contemplating doing the Loop?

Pat
 
Pat, whatever you plan, you'll be doing the Great Loop with someone. You'll meet them along the way, you'll meet them at overnights; I can only guarantee you'll be doing the Loop with someone. Only you don't know them yet.

Here's our version of the Loop: Our Journey Great Loop

Boris
 
journey on":310sc6rz said:
Pat, whatever you plan, you'll be doing the Great Loop with someone. You'll meet them along the way, you'll meet them at overnights; I can only guarantee you'll be doing the Loop with someone. Only you don't know them yet.

Here's our version of the Loop: Our Journey Great Loop

Boris

Boris, I know you are correct, we joined AGLCA (America's Great Loop Cruisers Association), and I read the digest of posts in my Inbox daily!
 
Pat, We have had the Loop on our Bucket List, but have not made a definite plan for next year yet. We have a Grandson who is 6 months in on a 3 year Chemo schedule for Leukemia. We'll have to see what the outlook is like in late Winter, and plan from there. We haven't been able to get too far from home yet, however we did just get back from 5 days at Lake Powell. Great trip!
 
Discovery":1gv30sad said:
Pat, We have had the Loop on our Bucket List, but have not made a definite plan for next year yet. We have a Grandson who is 6 months in on a 3 year Chemo schedule for Leukemia. We'll have to see what the outlook is like in late Winter, and plan from there.

So We haven't been able to get too far from home yet, however we did just get back from 5 days at Lake Powell. Great trip!

Brent,

Sorry to hear about your grandson, first things first! Our thoughts are with you and Dixie.

Pat & Patty
 
Pat:

Don't know if you ever saw our series "Final Voyage Of The Mischief" (youtube) but you should as a primer for the journey. 25 videos in all, Florida to Maryland on the ICW. What you want to watch for is the anchorages - we planned our trip to not be marina hounds, and anchored out all but 2 stops (and that was for weather). Just plug Final Voyage Of The Mischief into any search engine.

Discovery - absolutely will pray for your Grandson's recovery!
 
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