Diving deep

Until now, the water tank has been for washing dishes and brushing teeth/hand washing because you could fill a glass or bowl with water and wait. Eventually small black rubber particulate would settle out onto the bottom. The particulate was coming from an ancient fill hose made of reinforced layered rubber. With a Herculean amount of effort I got it off of the hose barbs on both ends and got it out. Unfortunately this resulted in an immediate panic since the hoses internal diameter was 1 3/4 inches- a very non standard size. Nobody had replacement hose. Not Lowe’s or West marine or anybody obvious online. 
The hose was too degraded to go back on so I was starting to consider trying to remove the old fittings from the tank and the deck when someone suggested McMaster carr. What a life saver. They actually had several options of food safe hoses in that size. Nothing reinforced and all clear but hey. 5.59 a foot? Sold. I wrapped it in duct tape and it went quite easily Ack through the bulkheads and onto the fittings, being pretty flexible and much thinner than the old hose. 

Next step was to open the service port on theyank itself. I built this up in my mind to mean that I was going to find all manner of gunk and or dead mice in and was quite dreading It. 

Phew nothing but antifreeze and a few little blobs. I cleaned up what a could and refilled through the new clean hose! Hopefully we can drink the tank water this year and stop using so many plastic bottles of water. 

Meanwhile matt has gotten all of the head hoses out and all of the excess through hulls are out. We found a rather bad patch job that necessitated cutting a hole in the hull big enough to stick your head through. The patch looks wonderful.