Saturday, June 22 Port McNeill

Fred has been working on a water leak from the hot water heater.  He replaced what he thought was a defective temp/pressure valve on the hot water heater.  This caused a cascade of terrible events.  Several hours after replacing the T/P valve, and filling the water tank (100 gallons) he went to get a drink of water and all that came out of the faucet was a air.  With a horrible foreboding he checked the water tank gage and found it to indicate that the water tank was empty. Oh @##$$% !  Where did the 100 gallons of water go??  Upon checking the engine room he found the T/P valve had unexpectedly opened up and we had pumped a 100 gallons of water into the hot water heater → out the T/P valve → all over the carpets in the pantry → into his completely dry bilge and overboard.  #$%^ !  He was just a little disturbed…  After moving all the stuff from the pantry floor to the engine room, removing the soaking wet rugs, he pounded on the T/P valve to seat it.  Then we filled the tanks, replaced the carpets and thought all was well.