Watch your water lines. Need to always go uphill from thru hull to past pump, otherwise you'll have an air pocket and the pump won't pull water unless you bleed it. I have to crack my strainer lid just a hair to bleed off the air pocket if I run my AC with boat in water. I knew this going in, but the routing I choose to do didn't t give me the perfect flow path. A simple valve like what you have in that loop will do the trick easily to bleed the air pocket if you turn it upwards. I assume that valve is for your dockside waterhose option?

keep the pics coming

The valve is to bleed off any air when needed. All hoses are not tight yet just fitting and getting my levels. The through hull is in and let it set up over night, I did not post a pic of that I will later. Its port side just forward of the motor and between main keel and P-1 stringer. everything is below water line and runs up hill. Denis over at the Mermaid factoy was happy to take the time and show us around and talk over many install situations also gave me the install guys cell number if we need it over the weekend he lives a few miles from me. The factory is really nice and clean and they are keeping everyone busy. They are big in medical units heat/cold containers for medical use very unique place. Units are made to order and built to your setup pretty cool. My "dock side" line will prob get cut in between the through hull and strainer and ill just close off the hull valve and have a dock side vale to close when "in water" use. Assuming the pump will always run during operation I think that is the best location. The dockside line will have a 24V valve to open and close with thermostat operation.

I believe I've seen that boat in a pic on here a while back. If its the same one, it sure was a nice looking boat!

Here is the through hull


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Set the unit in. Fits very nice and under counter top.. :poopoo: what counter top. Bye bye old cup holder old school limo look...

If i might make a suggestion, I'd replace the PVC elbow with a bronze one. be easy to crack it by accident when working in bilge. We had a cruiser sink here in our marine when someone bumped that same setup as yours when stepping out and didn't notice they cracked the elbow at the threads before closing the hatch. The next morning the steering wheel was a little wet

Left that there for the picture I knew someone would comment on it LOL. I have the bronze fitting on already nothing was glued yet. That was the first thing I noticed once I had it in place. I have black hose from the fitting to strainer and the clear 225psi clear through the pump and some 150 going forward double clamped all the way over kill but it will be safe

Nice works, keep us inform . Hope I don't need to go through all this when I pick up my 42 next week :)

Congrats on new boat. Enjoy it! Great looking!

Depends on what options you have and what you want. I am doing the AC and the tunes before i splash it. If I dont install it now it will never get done. Remember, not to many days that you cant boat in the sunshine state. Idle zones suck this time of year.