{"id":234,"date":"2012-03-14T13:03:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T13:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2012-03-14T14:26:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T14:26:27","slug":"my-mom-says-its-darker-before-the-dawn-i-sure-hope-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"My Mom says it’s darkest before the dawn. I sure hope so."},"content":{"rendered":"

My mother has often chirped, when things are looking a bit bleak and that they will never get better, don’t worry “it’s always darkest before the dawn”. \u00a0 \u00a0The highway department has a similar view when they post a sign in a construction zone that announces “the inconvenience is temporary but the repairs are permanent”. \u00a0 When I surveyed Pandora the other day when I was working on the watermaker, both phrases came to mind.<\/p>\n

It seems that it’s about this time each year when I feel like projects on Pandora will never come to an end that I survey the mess that I have on my hands and say “yikes, \u00a0this will never get better.<\/p>\n

Yes, I am making progress toward launch but this is the view that greets me when I climb aboard these days. \u00a0What a trashed mess.\"\"<\/a>A bit of a contrast to how she will look when she’s all cleaned up in a few months. \u00a0 I hope so anyway. \u00a0 Perhaps if I just add a lovely herb plant. \u00a0Perhaps not.\u00a0\"\"<\/a>Down below? \u00a0Worse or better? You be the judge. \u00a0 No… trashed equally.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Another angle better? \u00a0Not even close.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>No gourmet meals being prepared here.<\/p>\n

However, if things continue to progress we will soon have “unlimited” water or at least as much water as we have power to generate with our new watermaker. \u00a0 \u00a0While the following pictures may look about the same as the ones that I posted a few weeks ago, there is significant progress with many more lovely hoses run from one place to the other. \u00a0 Trust me, there is much more done now. \u00a0Really.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And the membrane, the part of the system that actually separates the water from the salt is now in place.<\/p>\n

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Lots more to do but primarily, it’s a matter of running output hoses to the water tanks, wiring up the unit and finishing the plumbing. \u00a0Lots yes, but the end is near.<\/p>\n

Oh yea, the best part was drilling two 3\/4″ holes in the hull, one for the intake and the other for the brine overboard discharge. \u00a0 Holes in the bottom of the boat certainly ranks up there as a worst nightmare sort of thing. \u00a0The intake had to have a scoop so that the movement of the boat will help push water into the system so that the pumps won’t have to work so hard. \u00a0It seems that a flush hole in the hull actually creates a suction when the boat is moving so a scoop that directs the water is needed. \u00a0 Not surprisingly, the instructions offer a caution not to place the intake port for the unit down stream from the head outlet. \u00a0 Sounds like excellent advice.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I hope to be back working on Pandora soon but find myself consumed by working toward our move to Essex in a few weeks. \u00a0No rest for the weary. \u00a0However, spring is just around the corner so that means sailing can’t be far away either.<\/p>\n

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My mother has often chirped, when things are looking a bit bleak and that they will never get better, don’t worry “it’s always darkest before the dawn”. \u00a0 \u00a0The highway department has a similar view when they post a sign in a construction zone that announces “the inconvenience is temporary but the repairs are permanent”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}