Day 207, Water came back to the lake, Refrigerator, Water heater dryfit, Sailing

 Lake Travis get water back it was 20 Ft in 24 hours 

We have got a lot of water!

Some sailing fun on Saturday (~4 hours).

We decided to go lake upstream direction and after about 1.5 hours nice sailing we was stopped by police and POLITELY asked to return back to marina. 

Then we found the lake is closed for recreational boater for now due to a lot of floating trash on the water and search operation is steel in progress.  

 Refrigerator

Since day one I installed refrigerator, I think how to make it work more efficient. couple years ago I have converted my ice chest to embedded refrigerator, it was done by re-aranging parts from the smal household refrigerator. I ended up mount evaparator inside the ice box, compressor is located under LPG locker and condencer in between LPG locker and starboard side of the hull. it is appeared pretty "cozy" space, but not a lit free airflow to keep condenser cool well a specially when it is working hard to cool 20-30 lb of stuff in the box.

I added temporary fan hanged in between exhaust hose and the wall in the locker to provide some air movement. On a week I made a hood   to organise airflow and mount fan to move air through the condenser.

 

Fan is powered in parallel with compressor, when compressor works, fan runs air and transfer heat to surrounding ;-) Hull, LPG locker and starboard cockpit locker.

After installation condenser output come barely warm. Before it was 70-80C

 Water Heater 

Heater dry fit in the engine room. 

I have bought  6 gallon Water Heater, 120 volt | Kuuma 11811. it is 13.625” High X 13.75” Wide X 19.75” Deep. Some sources say it is 19" height, it is an error.

It set into engine room pretty tight but nice. Model I get has  mount plates on front and back. To secure back side I made aluminum bracket to let heater mounting plate to slide under it tightly. Then screw front mounting plate to the "floor". It looks this heater was made to be mounted on IC 34.

 

Top  view

I still need to connect water and coolant hoses, but it will be next week .

 

Engine room sole.

 

After heater installation it appears not a lot of space to get in the engine room, a specially no floor area.

I decided to make removable floor panel mostly covering driveshaft and providing protection for depth-finder and STW sensor.

Templating process on pictures. 

Sole template

Sole support template