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The Plumbing

on this vessel is as ship-shape as I've ever seen on any boat ready for offshore cruising.
Sapien has two 12 volt pumps dedicated to water flow:

(Forward, under the V-berth)

1) is the primary pump assigned to fresh (potable) water from the 60 gal tank located to the left of the above frame. [After the 20 day sail to the Big Island from mainland USA we found we still had over a half tank of water left. We did take all of our showers in the brine and we washed all of our dishes with raw water and rinsed them with fresh. It worked famously!]
2) is a raw water wash down pump connected to a hose line on the deck. (In the future I think we will scrap the raw water wash down idea for a water maker using the same thru-hull as the current raw water input.)

For our marine head we have a special feature that I've never seen on any other vessel before. We have a choice of three settings for our waste flow:

1) Into the holding tank.

2) Overboard.

3) Hand pump from holding tank to overboard