Today I continued with the survey prep. I checked all of the seacocks.. They all worked, but the seacocks for the cockpit scuppers were a bit stiff. Those are 65 mm (roughly 2 1/2") gate valves. Big hunking, industrial looking chunks of carefully machined bronze.
When I bought Synergy the purchase survey suggested that gate valves are discouraged for seacocks, but since the scupper thru-hulls are above the waterline, the surveyor passed them back then. Replacing them would be scarily expensive since the thru-hull would either be an odd 65 mm metric size, or else I would need to glass over the hole in the boat and then cut a new hole to install a new Imperial Unit thru-hull and seacock. Those seacocks always work when I use them, but I almost never use them and so they tend to stick the first time I try to close them. All lubed up they turn easily now.
With the port cockpit scupper seacock closed, I was able to disconnect the old bilge pump discharge hose from the Tee fitting and continue installing that end of the new bilge pump discharge hose.
Then I started working on the bilge pump end of the hose. I had decided to replace all of the fittings as well as the hose which meant unmounting the bilge pump and disconnecting all of the old hose parts. In doing so, I managed to break the water pump housing. I had replaced that bilge pump when I bought Synergy so the pump was now 23 years old. It had faithfully performed its services and was given an appropriate burial in the recycling bin.
With everything out of the sumps, I decided it was a perfect time to scrub the bilges. More archeology this time in slimy layers punctuated by decades of lost small fastenings.
I made another a quick trip to West Marine before closing time to pick up a new bilge pump, some liquid insulation and a few more hose clamps.
The next morning, I finished installing the bilge pump, wiring it and attaching the hoses.. More Boago.....