The galley sink sits pretty much at the waterline, so just draining through a seacock is not going to cut it. I don't know what the original set-up was like, but the previous owner installed a new sump system which, to say the least, has been the bane of our lives since Day One. Float switches that get jammed, plumbing hooked up to the wrong ports on the sump, a pump not suited to pumping dirty water full of scraps, fat and food scraps building up in the sump until it completely clogs, and all with the end result of dirty sink water spilling into the bilge on a regular basis. Every four weeks or so I would have to pull the whole sump out to clean it out in order to keep it working.
Enough is enough!
With the latest failure causing large amounts of crap to pour into the bilge and the ensuing clean-up, I marched up to the chandlery store in a righteous rage and bought a proper macerator pump, new fittings, hoses, etc, and proceeded to deal to the evil little ****.
So, here is a graphic of how you transfer the water from the sink to the outside of the boat on Kamalii.
I'd previously installed a capacitive level sensor hooked up to a timer circuit and relay, with a manual/auto/off control switch, which has been a load more reliable than the old float switch. Now with a proper macerator pump (instead of the old Par diaphragm pump) which is hooked up to the proper pick-up, all the crap actually gets vacuumed out of the sump; I went from two inches of rice and pasta scraps to clean bottom in just three cycles.
Still some tidying up to do, but that will wait for a month until I am 101% happy that all is good with the new installation. And here's hoping I never have to open that bloody sump again. (Dream on, it's a boat...).
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