Sailboat Water Tank Repair, Chain Lockers,Maintaining Your Head * Patrick Childress Sailing Tips #32

Patrick Childress Sailing

Sailboat Water Tank Repair, Chain Locker modification, and Maintain your Marine Toilet! All DIY + Final Details of Sailboat Tour Valiant 40 - the Details with Blue water Sailboat Tour and Sailing Tips. Patrick Childress, another one of his sailing videos...discusses the chain locker modification we made on Brick House to get the weight of the anchor chain down low, and further aft. Then, after we found that our fresh water tanks were leaking, he shows how to fix water tanks by painting them rather than by replacing them, using just epoxy and paint.. Repairing the Water tank on our sailboat, instead of water tank replacement saved us a lot of money. Patrick then discusses how many people have problems with the heads on their sailboat when really with some simple sailboat Head maintenance tips problems could be solved and the marine head repaired easily. Many sailboat heads squeak, leak and don’t pump properly, but Patrick Childress shows you how to maintain and repair a sailboat Head so it pumps easily and doesn’t leak, by taking it apart and lubricating it. Marine toilet maintenance is of utmost importance when cruising! One must learn how to maintain a sailboat Head or pay the price. Patrick also presents an alternative material he used for the Headliner replacement (ceiling). Then Rebecca gives a quick tour of marine electronics on onboard our cruising sailboat. This Bluewater sailboat tour is part 3 of a series, and get in to the things we do not like about about our cruising sailboat and the sailboat repairs we had to do to make her ready for ocean sailing.. If you are considering one of the many bluewater sailboats for sale, this would be a good video to add to your collections of how to choose a Bluewater Sailboat to buy. These upgrades should be factored in to your decision when buying a bluewater sailboat, for sure, since they are big sailboat repairs. .Patrick Childress Sailing Video #32 Is another great do it yourself video about how to choose and buy the best Bluewater sailboat under 40 feet! Sailing video #32 Парусный тур This is another sailboat how to Video! Sailing is at its bet Patrick and Rebecca essentially give a review of a Bluewater sailboat in the sailing video...what they like and don’t like about this boat. This is Video 3 in a Valiant 40 Sailboat Tour Part 1 : (Above decks): “Bluewater Sailboat: Valiant 40 Sailboat tour”. #30. https://youtu.be/vT6qZtij6us Part 2 : (Below deck): “Bluewater Cruising Sailboat Tour: Valiant 40, Down Below” #31 Fixing Sailboats -Bluewater Cruising Sailboat Tour, Valiant 40, Down Below Patrick Childress Sailing https://youtu.be/g-SCowpKCWw Part 3 (Below deck part 2 #3) (This is the one you are watching now.) ********************************* Here are some links for the Products seen in this video. JABSCO TOILET. http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-8942237-10540053?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.westmarine.com%2Fbuy%2Fjabsco--twist-n-lock-compact-toilet--9532748&cjsku=9532748 ——————————————————————————— The WiFi Antenna we Use is this: Halo WiFi Long Distance WiFi Antenna https://amzn.to/2SM4LgX ———————————————————————————- Please, start your Amazon shopping here: here: https://amzn.to/2K9MmuA Predictwind Iridium GO. https://amzn.to/2smLQxD Predictwind Iridium GO External Antenna https://amzn.to/2D0bBdg My articles on Predictwind and Iridium GO: http://whereisbrickhouse.com/2018/06/06/predictwind-and-the-iridium-go/ http://whereisbrickhouse.com/2017/08/28/one-thing-is-for-certain/ http://www.oceannavigator.com/January-February-2019/Satellite-hot-spot-offshore/ Predictwind has a lot of info on their site too about the iridium GO. https://www.predictwind.com/ ———————————————————————————————- ✘✘ MY CAMERA GEAR ✘✘ https://amzn.to/2E5N5Ig https://amzn.to/2E4YLei ▬▬ FOLLOW ALONG! ▬▬ ✩Instagram: http://www.Instagram.com/svBrickHouse ✩ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SYBrickhouse ✩ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SVBrickhouse ✩Our blog: :http://www.WhereIsBrickHouse.com ✩Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/PatrickChildress ▬▬ ABOUT ▬▬ Patrick Childress and Rebecca Childress are currently travelling the world on their sailboat "Brick House". They have been slowly sailing around the world for 12 years and are now in Tanzania. for You can follow their adventures on http://www.WhereIsBrickHouse.com Sailing Uma has a good video about a sailboat too. #PatrickChildressSailing #SailingTips #Valiant40 #TravelsAnimals #Sailing #Sailboat #Sail #SailboatRepair

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Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Please SUBSCRIBE if you like this video!
What subject would you like us to do next?

David Rhodes - 5 years ago

Do you add anything into the chain locker? Simple Green?

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

While at the dock, or even at anchor,and all the chain is out, I will vacuum the locker to get the dirt and bits of things out to help keep from plugging the drain hose. At the dock, I will run water through the locker drain to help flush it out. Otherwise, it is a pretty maintenance free area. Never used any soap in the locker.

Van Reynders - 5 years ago

I noticed your boat today moored close to me at Slipway :)

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Which boat were you?

hatem alkaikh - 5 years ago

good job

Kloak-n- Dagr - 5 years ago

Thanks....love your videos.

Marcus Petraska - 5 years ago

new ceiling panels look like a good improvement

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

The old panels were a real wreck of peeling paint and delamination. This boat is 1976 so there isn't much which hasn't been replaced.

KennethOlson42 - 5 years ago

Rebecca, Thanks for the tour of your Nav Station & thanks to Patrick for his many instructions. If you give more details about the various Navigation elements in your setup, I would be interested. You guys are great ! Tks Ken

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Kenneth, there have been a couple times where interesting things got me motivated to make a little local video. Some of those items are at the end of videos. Eventually we decided to start putting those up separately in our new Travels and Animals, You Tube channel. Do a search for Travels and Animals and it will come up. Thanks for the comment.

KennethOlson42 - 5 years ago

Patrick Childress Sailing
Hi Patrick,
Since you visit such exotic locations, maybe you could show or describe the area & what you & Rebecca see &/or do when you anchor for months; but please keep up the good instructions on the boat systems.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

In the newest video about our passage from Tanga to Zanzibar, I get into a few more details on what the MFD, Multi Function Display, can do. We will have to get to work on a more in depth nav station video. Thanks for your comment.

Rick James - 5 years ago

Thanks for another great video! A video just covering the nav station (all aspects) would be very much appreciated! I just finished ASA 119 Marine WX class and learned about all the different options for receiving weather info while at sea. I’m getting ready to start making some very important purchases for my nav station and I would love to hear your thoughts and expertise about how you would set up yours if starting from scratch. Thanks again!

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

We finally got the nav station video out. I hope it was not too late to be of help.

Charles Adams - 5 years ago

Hi Patrick. My wife and I are looking to retire on our yacht and sail her down to Thailand.
I was wondering what your out goings are for your where you are?

Regards

Charles.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Everyone's economic situation is a little different. Some people never go into a marina and some people can not pass up a marina. You can live as frugally as you want. The big money breaker is all the unexpected boat repair bills. Best be able to do most of the work yourself. It is far cheaper to live on our sailboat than to live in a house in the U.S.. There, we would have to go back to work just to pay the property taxes, mortgage, electricity, heating, insurance, then all the expenses of a car....a lot of overhead expenses that don't always exist on a sailboat.

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Troy Cooper - 5 years ago

Hi Patrick, for the last year or more I've been watching and reading as much as I can on the internet about sailing. I must say, your videos have been by far the most informative and an absolute pleasure to watch. I look forward to seeing more. Thank-you for taking the time to make them.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to thank him....he enjoys making them, but they sure do take a lot of time and effort. -Rebecca

Eric Blackburn - 5 years ago

How are your experiences with the Raymarine Wireless systems?

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

This is Rebecca. We really like them...and it’s nice to not have the wires to contend with. We have had to replace the solar batteries twice, and Patrick does regular maintenance on the bearings and cups on the top of the mast. See these two videos for details : https://youtu.be/2xATulCi3hE and https://youtu.be/P_9pZX1LjyE to see details

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

So far so good. No complaints. We have had them for I don't remember how many years.

Hans Jensen - 5 years ago

Hi Patrick- Are your PVC panels glued to your ceiling or just held up by the trim strips? Thanks!

Hans Jensen - 5 years ago

Patrick Childress Sailing Thank you!

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Hans, The PVC panels are held in place with the teak strips screwed into the plywood ceiling.

David - 5 years ago

Hi from Oz. Patrick, what concentration of chlorine are you using in your water tanks? My tanks are sealed FG and I have inline filters for the drinking water, but so far have not used Cl.

David - 5 years ago

+Patrick Childress Sailing Thanks Patrick. Lots on the internet but also a fair amount of disagreement, so tapping into your experience is helpful. I just recently cleaned all of my tanks and now want to keep them that way.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Hi David, we use 1/8th cup of 5.25% sodium hypochlorite, common house bleach, to 45 gallons of water. That is about 8mL of bleach to 205 L of water. Google it and there is a lot of info about adding chlorine to fresh water. If the water is cloudy, we add additional bleach. Recently we stopped at a marina in Zanzibar and put on some very clean RO water. In 7 weeks, that water sitting in one tank, is now growing muck so that confirms I need to constantly keep the chlorine level to a minimum to keep our water fresh.

Reload 'n Charge! - 5 years ago

Another enjoyable, informative vlog. Thank you. Glad to see both of you participating! Although I read your article on Iridium Go.....and am a Predictwind subscriber currently.....a two or three minute segment illustrating A-Z, starting from “wonder what the weather looks like for this next passage” to “reading the gribs on the Ipad” would be appreciated. Perhaps the same with the 802 (I am a ham with a 700pro onboard, no pactor, callsign KG5WBU General class). Good Jabsco maintenance review...just like mine, maintained like mine (with a Lavac second for offshore). Thanks again! Andrew

Reload 'n Charge! - 5 years ago

Patrick Childress Sailing - thank you.....folks I chat to enjoy your videos, and enjoy Rebecca and the travelogues equally....but the tech upgrades are cool and all can relate. Many of us will only get to Zanzibar via Rebecca’s vlogs and imagery.....we all however, at some point, will end up knee deep in a Jabsco repair!

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Andrew, Good ideas. Day after tomorrow we leave Tanga, on the coast, for the island of Zanzibar, about 45 miles to the southeast. I think Rebecca is receptive to doing the weather check and routing, on camera, so we can show some real sailing. But also have to finish up the "tour" by going into the engine room, my favorite place.

Virgil Grillone - 5 years ago

Great video. Would love a full detail of your Nav station!

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

I’m a bit camera shy...it’s hard to remember what I want to say....but at will try it one of these days. Appreciate the comment and request. - Rebecca

John2156 - 5 years ago

Yes.....please do a long video of the nav station. and thanks guys for being you.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Thanks...one of these days. I don’t really like being on camera ;) But one of these days. Rebecca

Garold Jackson - 5 years ago

You have a nice boat... shows that you take care of it.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

It is a treadmill of maintenance but well worth the effort for the places this boat takes us.

Sealight Adventures - 5 years ago

More great tips. Thanks for sharing.

roderick mchardy - 5 years ago

thank you PC ( and Rebecca ),,, OMG,, do i need a Rebecca on my boat ?????

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Every boat needs a Rebecca.

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Paul Fitzgerald - 5 years ago

Whoops! Eula beat me to it 15 minutes ago...

Paul Fitzgerald - 5 years ago

Patrick, that rusted out spring in your Toilet pump.
Have you tried finding an appropriately sized O ring in your collection, and inserting it into the channel the old spring was in?
Works a treat, a trick I learnt with the shaftseals in a Volvo saildrive.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Paul and Eula, Thanks for the great idea! I know people out
here who have been sailing most of their life and have always been disturbed by
having to replace that shaft seal so often. What a great fix. I just got out my
box of metric O-rings and it appears 8X2 fits the tightest. The next size down
will not fit. I don’t have imperial O-rings.
The next video will finish up the Valiant tour, which will be the engine room
and transmission. That will be a short video so there will be time to add a few
little items at the end. I will certainly give you guys credit when I show how to
install the O-ring in place of the absent spring.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

jwrappuhn71 - 5 years ago

Excellent vid ya'll, thanks for the info.

Diane Swift - 5 years ago

Extremely informative and clear presentations. Wonderful to see a woman who installs and operates her nav equipment. Thanks for sharing your beautiful floating home.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

+Diane Swift Thanks Diane! Patrick probably gives me too much credit. I might be a little quicker to remember the menus, and I enjoy the installation and troubleshooting of any problems that come up. But for an old dog, Patrick learns the new tricks pretty darn fast! - Rebecca

Mike New Zealand - 5 years ago

Toilet section very helpful would take me a while to get my head around all the nav station machines !!!!lol

SV DEEVA - 5 years ago

Great video, thanks for sharing all the tips.

SailingKayode - 5 years ago

Always great tips! Thanks to you both!

emh4th - 5 years ago

Yes thumbs up I appreciate the knowledge!

Cyclomaniac - 5 years ago

Great info and video.... thanks!!

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Lew Bassett - 5 years ago

I would love a more detailed Nav Station video. Great videos, thank you!!

cameron Gibbs - 5 years ago

I have so much love for Robert Perry designs ,but you can't think of everything .Good work on the pin on the table .

Solla Sollew - 5 years ago

No wonder you let Rebecca handle the nav station, I've seen less instrumentation on a space ship.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

I love all the electronic eyes that see out over the water and down into the sea. It can be like flying an airplane IFR, instrument flight regulations. The Lorance fish finder is like looking out an airplane window but down to the ocean bottom. At 1,800 feet, while sailing along the Caribbean, Mexican coast, the Lowrance traced out the perfect outline of a volcano complete with "smoke" coming out of the cone. The Raymarine has two different types of SONAR which uses a sweep of radio frequencies to give a much finer definition of the ocean bottom but only to a couple hundred feet. The Lowrance uses the standard 50 or 200kz frequencies. Rebecca knows the electronics better than I do.

Barry Rizzo - 5 years ago

Great tips thanks

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Rebecca was the big motivator to begin this trip 12 years ago. Thanks for you comment!

The Sailing Kiwi - 5 years ago

always informative and great to see the channel growing - Congrats

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Thanks Kiwi.

Karsten Boye Nielsen - 5 years ago

Very much like your videos and your good advice. You really know your ship.

Clay Farnet - 5 years ago

A star is born, thanks Rebecca. Another great video. Please keep them coming.

Sail Oria complete refit - 5 years ago

Would love a.whole nav station and electrical video...my project is gonna be ready soon LOL, really!!!...love all you vids, big help seeing what is used and what is unnecessary...thanks and favorable winds!

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

We will soon get started on that video. Thanks for the comment!

Patrick Laine - 5 years ago

Thanks Patrick (and Rebecca). Am interested in your thoughts on how high up a priority list should radar be for someone who doesn't have one. Are the energy drain and tuning/noise issues worth the hassle? Has your experience with one been good? Thanks.

Patrick Laine - 5 years ago

Thanks Slipstream. I'll check it out. Much appreciated.

Sailing S/V Slipstream - 5 years ago

Patrick Laine hey Patrick we use BG 4g radar it’s invaluable in the Great Lake as we run into heavy fog quit often also on a trip to Newfoundland it was used many times during night sails and again fog I have sold the boat and purchased a union cutter on the west coast and it will certainly have a BG radar system installed cheers mate looking forward to more of ur videos

Patrick Laine - 5 years ago

Thanks Patrick. It's reassuring hearing someone with your experience confirming that radar is more than 'nice to have', and that modern radars are vastly better than early generation ones. It's (high) on my list. I have just installed an inner forestay and staysail, so I am slowly but surely making progress on 'the list'. :-) I'm doing local sailing now, but when it gets a bit warmer, I'll be heading North to Iceland for the Spring/Summer. Looking forward to your next video.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Hi Patrick. I love flying this boat IFR. With all this powerful instrumentation we can see far beyond the horizon and get a clear trace of the ocean bottom, thousands of feet below. We have a powerful RADAR and is absolutely necessary in S.E. Asia, along the Mexican coast and other areas where we get early warning of unlit, small, fishing boats we would have hit. I have watched 200' fishing boats turn on their AIS when the spotting helicopter launched then turned off the AIS when the helicopter returned. Plus, at night, the terrible distance perception to lit fishing boats, without AIS, is cleared up by using RADAR. AIS has taken over much of the RADAR work but will never eliminate it because of all those other vessels that will never have AIS. Still, there are container ships, like which operate intracommercial, in Indonesia that do not show AIS or keep a proper lookout. I reported one of these negligent ships to the ship owner who was very happy to get the report. The self adjustments of modern RADAR is so good I don't normally have to do more than manually adjust the gain when searching for difficult targets. Our RADAR is used far more at night than during the day. The power usage is only a fraction of what the old RADARs were 15 or 20 years ago. When not in active use, we set the RADAR to standby and the energy use is minimal. We do not have a built in generator so we do what we can to conserve amperage. For the type of ocean and coastal sailing we do, which is often multi overnighters, it would be far too risky to do without RADAR. Cheap insurance. Just the other day I looked to see if you have any new vids. I am looking forward to the next one!

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Umadum Sailing - 5 years ago

Very interesting and helpful guys!

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Thanks, Umadum!

glassman51 - 5 years ago

Hi Patrick and Rebecca, just wanted to say thank you once again, as a cruiser that is planning to shop off in a year and a half your information and tips are absolutely invaluable. Please keep up the good work, Fairwinds

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Thanks, Glassman.

2jsims - 5 years ago

Excellent! Thanks for the tour & tips! Always interesting, Always useful info!!

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Thank you.

kevbjork1 - 5 years ago

Thanks guys for the info. I really love those good old boats. My boat has the old Raritan PHIIs and they work well. Thankfully Raritan still makes parts for these heads as they haven't changed much over the years. I'm sure the Jabscos are the same way. My boat has aluminum tanks also and I may do what you did to keep them.

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

Decades ago I sailed around the world with a Raritan head. That was a good inexpensive head and only leaked a little from the pump shaft when I did not lube it. The Jabsco is pretty similar to the Raritan. It was a lot of work prepping the water tank for painting but well worth the effort. Also, that 2 part paint is very toxic to breathe. I had fans running but also set up the hookah so I could breathe good air through the regulator during the application. Just the fans would not have been enough.

Anthony Lee - 5 years ago

Where can one find the 4x8 sheets of PVC? Do plastic suppliers carry that?

Patrick Childress Sailing - 5 years ago

I did the ceiling work in the Philippines and it had to be ordered from the capital, Manilla. In the U.S., check with a local lumber yard. The lumber yard will have access to PVC trim boards and certainly the PVC panels.

MightyMerc - 5 years ago

Very informative video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.

Brick House - 5 years ago

MightyMerc Thanks for the thumbs up...we appreciate it!

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