PICTURE

Until one regularly uses the installed systems on your vessel, can you really find if there are any faults and the galley (kitchen) waste water was a classic example. It was assembled with regular house-hold plastic waste pipe fittings and a beautifully fabricated stainless steel hose diameter reducer, with a built-in right-angled bend. The inevitable 3 internal stepped shoulders were a perfect trap for waste food particles in the waste water, to be caught and block the system.

'A' reengineered it by using a €15 plastic smooth bored Vetus reducing adaptor in place of the stainless fabrication and re-laid the pipe run so it had a gentle gravity drop to the grey coloured waste water sump in the bilge. He connected the black coloured waste hose directly to the kitchen pipe system, allowing the removal of 4 of the plastic 90deg bends, further speeding and improving the waste water flow.