welcome to sailing vessel seeker still on the heart here at
patients camp appropriately named shackleton was three and a half months at patients camp
i want to beat his record of course all they had was ice and snow and seal meat
and a few dogs thrown in most of what i have to do is get a generator head replaced but
i got a little job to do on this too and one of them is we gotta get ready for cold weather
so one of the jobs is getting this rv antifreeze into our water lines yeah it's gonna be a pretty
easy job i packed into the plumbing system here so i just run a hose down into a jug then we turn
the pump on let it pump it through the system i didn't want to pump it into my hot water tank so
i cut the line back here and drained that then i just temporarily tied the hot to the cold line if
this works out well i'll put some valves and stuff in there to do that so i don't have to chop the
lines apart but i do love pecs because it's just so easy just to treat it like a hose and cut it
put a new piece back in and the other thing about texas last time it froze on this boat last year
i didn't lose any pecks because it expands with the cold and contracts back
but the heater and all the other fittings and such i'm not going to take that risk i'm just
going to go ahead and put antifreeze in now it's just a matter of making sure that we
get a little pink water out of everything yeah it's easy to see from the pink where it's going
there it is
yeah that'll do it it's getting into everything okay even ran it to the washing machine
you know much people told me to put expansion tanks on this thing it's got plenty of hose
in the system that i don't need in the expansion tank the hose acts like that
drain those shut these off get a taste for the heads a little more for the bilge pump down there
that took three gallons so got enough to do it again if i need to the last thing is the rainwater
collection system and uh that's made out of pvc so it breaks pretty easy but we're down in the bowel
so that should let everything drain we'll just take our chances on that i got antifreeze and
the check valves from the bilge pumps but the one from the rainwater drainage system
that i can't do anything about a little heat tape around it would take care of that
is we're gonna go to the arctic anyway and i need to keep that from freezing
shackleton would put heat tape on it you know i was hoping to be in the gulf of mexico about this
time and not having to deal with anything like freezing pipes but here we are but you know let's
work it out well we have our insurance and now the consultant for the port and our insurance agent
and i'm letting charlie do it and they're working out the details of the language and the policy
and once that gets done we'll have insurance not just for launching here but for a year going down
the river and so forth so that's a good thing another cool thing is i got to meet bob portis
the other day bob portis is the guy who was the director of the tulsa porter katusa for
40 years something like that he built this place up from two buildings and uh he even
tells a story of them launching a boat out here and it's sinking and they had some guys come up
and attach some airbags to it and lift the thing up take it back out of the water i think it was a
pharaoh cement this is way back when though um but yeah so you know it does happen so they're being
bureaucratically paranoid like everybody is today so you know we're working with the
system as it is but it's working well and it's coming along slowly but coming along
patience is a wonderful thing that's why i just love patients camping the story of shackleton
you know getting upset about things that you have no control over is just such a waste so that whole
idea of uh you know if you can't have control over it don't throw a fit that's working out very well
for us because you know we could throw a fit right now but yeah they're trying they're trying in a
bureaucratic way that's the way they do things now so you know you take it as it is you know don't
let that upset you pay attention to the things in your life that you do have control over very stoic
getting upset about it just ain't the right thing to do because
there's so many people that'll throw a fit over just any little thing nowadays and it's just
it's just silly you know it's you're here to be happy and enjoy what you do and
i'm happy and i'm enjoying what i'm doing um so make the best of it and move on and toward that
end i'm off to lowe's to get me some fittings make draining this water lines easier next time
epithelis was a smart man lived two thousand years ago he said
it's not events that disturb people it's their judgment about them and that's right you can
choose to look at the bad side you choose to look at the good side it's better to choose a good site
installed all right so now i have valves to cut the tank off and another one
to drain it out and hopefully we won't have to use them very often but it also gives me a way of
isolating the tank easy and in the sink i have hose barbs on these two faucets
so i can put a little piece of hose here and tie them together that way i can move
anti-freeze from the coal line over to the hot system and pump it all through
it is amazing how quiet this place is on a sunday afternoon so that's it from
patients camp never did get that generator head installed well you know what i'm doing tomorrow
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