What is (are) the biggest PITA on your boat?

Diesel smell.

I have a slight gripe about this forum, and it's the use of animated gifs in avatars. They look rubbish and make the place look like fruit machine. Very distracting.
 
Biggest PITA:

The phone call asks if you can go to work tomorrow for 6 weeks destroying a pleasant winter days sail :mad:.

Have not been sailing since :eek: but that was only 2 weeks ago :o
 
Forgot to add.
Not so much on the boat, as under it.
Marine growths. 101 sorts of weed, slime, barnacles, sea squirts, even the odd mussel.
If only my garden were as fertile.
 
Talulah said:
Without a doubt - the holding tank.
The holding tank is in the bowels of the cockpit locker and all contents have to be pumped overboard. Frequently the pump won't prime itself as it lays flat and small particles of matter prevent the non-return valves from closing properly. The pump pushes and pulls but the same piece of air is moved back and forth. By mounting the pump vertically enough water sits on top of the non-return valve making sure it closes sufficiently enough to become effective.
Last weekend I bit the bullet. I fitted a diverter valve and this season for the first time in a long time I'm expecting a season free of trouble from the holding tank. The toilet contents from the main heads will now divert straight overboard.
Relief at last!
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I have the very same problem it is on my list of "Things to be Done" (which is different to the list of "Things to Do" )

I am planning a Y-divertor into the pipe from loo to tank and a second one between tank and skin fitting. So to choose between holding tank and direct flow will require both valves to be changed (they are hidden in a cockpit locker where peeps cant interfere with them)

Did you put a non return valve in anywhere?
 
Talulah said:
Without a doubt - the holding tank.

Last weekend I bit the bullet. I fitted a diverter valve and this season for the first time in a long time I'm expecting a season free of trouble from the holding tank. The toilet contents from the main heads will now divert straight overboard.
Relief at last!
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You don't really believe that , do you? Holding tanks don't give in that easily. Just hope your statement doesn't come back to bite you in the bum:D
 
MoodyNick said:
I have the very same problem it is on my list of "Things to be Done" (which is different to the list of "Things to Do" )

I am planning a Y-divertor into the pipe from loo to tank and a second one between tank and skin fitting. So to choose between holding tank and direct flow will require both valves to be changed (they are hidden in a cockpit locker where peeps cant interfere with them)

Did you put a non return valve in anywhere?
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You only need the one diverter valve. Outlet from toilet gets diverted to HT or to second 'Y' fitting. This second 'Y' piece doesn't need to be a diverter. This is the 'Y' where the inlet sides are either HT or toilet and outlet is skin fitting.
There should be no need for non-return valves. The electric/manual pump* for the HT has two non-return valves. The toilet itself has the Joker valve.
There is a diagram of my arrangement on the TekTanks web site.
http://www.tek-tanks.com/website/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/TBW-2-Legend.jpg
(Albeit I don't have the deck pump out facility.)

* assuming diaphram type pump, not macerator.

I should add that using the above arrangement as per the diagram could have some interesting side effects.
If the seacock was closed and you were pumping out the HT you could be trying to pump the HT contents back into the toilet or constantly circulating the sewage around the system.

My diverter valve is the lockable type also located in the back of the cockpit locker.
The rear heads still goes via the HT.
 
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Access to the engine (Volvo Penta 2020, shoe-horned in and only accessible to midgets); log impeller (almost always fouled); light in galley (intermittent fault)… they are the main ones!
 
Nostrodamus said:
What is it about your boat causes the most consternation or is always going wrong?
Is there something that needs re designing to make it work properly.
Engine, electrics, anchor stowage, heads, dinghy stowage.
Come on have a real gripe.. what is it?
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Running out of LPG in the middle of cooking an evening meal when it's raining cats&dogs outside.

The gas locker needs one to lie on your side to operate the changeover valve.
 
aslabend said:
.... old foam backed vinyl headlining. When the foam back goes it's just horrid. I've removed it from both quarter berths and have scraped / wire brushed most of the old foam and glue but it is the most god awful stuff.
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My friend you have my sympathy.. Have done that in the main cabin.. Decided to leave it bare and simple paint job...

I can add to the misery by way of removing old sound insulation in the engine compartments ( catamaran) then cleaning up for new stuff...
 
charles_reed said:
Running out of LPG in the middle of cooking an evening meal when it's raining cats&dogs outside.

The gas locker needs one to lie on your side to operate the changeover valve.
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Running out of gas in the midst of cooking an evening meal, then discovering that you have forgotten to replace the reserve bottle of gas and having to break the news to madame.
 
Biggest PITA (Jeanneau SO 36i) - The fact the boat has needed a new cutlass bearing every year since its birth 4 yrs ago and the engine controls being at your feet rather than on the binnacle. .... oh and shedding its Flex-o-fold propeller twice last year was a bit unfortunate too... though the feathering one seems to be staying on
 
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