New Water Ports

Our first project was to relocate the water ports after discovering the old hoses from the original ports to the water tanks were leaking in several areas.  It turned out that the hoses were at least 20 yrs old.  Tom evaluated the situation and thought his new idea might work!  He consulted with a couple of friends who are experienced with boat repairs and they agreed!  Instead of installing a 10-14 ft hose on each side: port and starboard, he wanted to install two new ports on the transom.  The new way resulted with two 3-ft hose lines directly to the water tanks.  Not too much of a challenge, but it was enough to say with it was a big project.  After working on this for several hours and completing it, Tom cut the old hose and heard a heavy clank near his foot.  He reached down and saw that it was an old key used to open the original water port cap and it was written on the side, “Patriot Games”.   It was the first name of our yacht.  I’m happy to say that she will now come to a full circle when we re-name her “Red October”.