Up early, I go to the end of the pier and do a workout on the floating, rocking megapiers. Just makes the core workout a bit harder.

Today is unusually rainy, most we’ve ever seen in the Caribbean. Every half hour or so it pours hard and is usually overcast. Good day to do work on the boat as it is not too hot either.

We poke away at jobs, one bothersome one is the water that accumulates in the freezer. No way it is coming from condensation so once again, I rip up the salon and dig into the plumbing down below. It has got to be from the sump pump backing up so I pull out the Whale Gulper 220 and sure enough water is backing up. Check the cheap one-way valve in the pump and I can see it is compromised so no mysteries here. I’ll steal one from one of the heads, it is the same pump in each one. The aft pump is hard to reach so I go check the forward one.

Wotsis? The forward pump is not even connected to the outfall hose! That hose is plugged with a through hull plug and the pump is connected to an open-ended hose that just dumps into the bilge. That may be explaining some water in the bilge. (Since I bought that replacement switch, every time it runs it pumps into the bilge.) Also, the water line to the sink is leaking a bit so another source of water in the bilge. I reconnect the pump to the outfall hose and fix the leaking water line. Turns out this pump has issues with return water too so it pumps up, then falls back, pumps up, then falls back so will run continually with the float switch. I turn off the float switch as I’m trying to sleep, it gurgles a bit but eventually stops.

Tomorrow I will try and find backflow preventers for these two.