It's a dirty job, but somebody (Michael) has to do it!

For a man whose knees go wobbly at the sight of a simple needle, Michael has an amazing capacity for dealing with the unpleasant effluent of a toilet system without fussing about the smell or complaining at all.

The holding tank was connected to the two toilets with large wire reinforced rubber hoses, with another large hose going to the pump out connection.  The first plan was to disconnect the hoses, cap ends and the holes with sandwich bags and duct tape, and remove the tank.  When that didn't work, we decided to cut the old hoses as we will get all new hoses with the new tank and toilets.  You can imagine the effects of taking an electric saw blade to these pipes!

With all the hoses gone, and all the holes sealed off, we managed to lift the tank out of the hole and finally get it off the boat, wrapped tightly in green garbage bags and more duct tape.

It's a nice big hole which Michael will clean up to prepare for the new tank, coming soon.

 

Our big question now is:  How will we remove all of the old hoses, and put in the nice new ones?   But that's something we can worry about another day.