March 13, 2011

I spent a lot of time during the week going from one hardware store or home improvement center to the next, trying to find the plumbing fittings I needed to make a “T” so that I could route the output from the shower sump pump into the head sink drain hose rather than the intake hose for the head where it had been. The problem was that the sink drain hose was 1 ¼ inch, not the most common plumbing size, and the sump pump hose was only ¾ inch. I finally found what I needed, but I went to at least half a dozen places until I found the last bit. Nothing is simple.

Because I have company coming next weekend and will be out of town three days next week on a photo shoot for my job, I had to allocate time this weekend to glamour jobs like laundry, house-cleaning and toilet-fixing. I did manage to squeeze in a few hours on Circadian, though, and continued to work on projects begun last week.

I installed the final locker door in the head , glassed over the screw holes in the top of the port cockpit locker that I suspected of being the source of a small but elusive leak, and filled and reinforced the joint where I had glued in a new fiberglass panel in the opening for the starboard cockpit locker.

With all the multi-tasking and hustling I've been doing, I hope I can retool my psyche enough to have some fun next weekend, even if the house isn't exactly presentable!