Tuesday, 22 September 2009

How not to do it

Now here is a challenge for you... drilling a hole in the side of the boat without either sinking the boat or electrocuting yourself! Drill it from the inside and you risk getting it too low. Drill it from the outside and you're messing with mains electricity far too close to a big pile of metal sitting in a very large puddle!

I ended up sitting in the kayak jammed between Relativity our next door neighbour Onion with the power cable trailing out of the bathroom window. There are plenty of electrical safety devices on-board Relativity but just in case of accident Ian had his finger on the "off" switch.

"Why are you drilling holes in the side of a boat?" I hear you ask. Exhaust pipe for the central heating and to tidy up the plumbing in the bathroom. Both the shower and the sink drained through the same hole and that tended to mean that the sink filled up via the plug hole (yuk) when the shower was being used. Now they are separated that won't happen (yay).

More tomorrow.

S.

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