Budget water tank and sink

The galley I planned to have in my small yacht, Old Duck, was to be a simple portable box, equipped with bare necessities, but even having fairly limited cabin space I still wanted to have a water tank and sink.

There was already a small sink in place on the starboard side across the ‘galley’ area. The size of it was adequate, except by being very shallow it was not of any real-life use, particularly at sea. What I found interesting was the plumbing – or lack of it; the sink was equipped with a drain including a seacock and bronze thru hull but there was no water tank anywhere in sight nor a pump/tap installed to get any water into the thing in the first place.

Galley remodelled

I began by removing the existing sink, together with its plumbing, removed the thru-hull fitting and permanently closed the hole in the hull where it was installed, fibreglassing it with resin