Quote Originally Posted by ebb View Post
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THE VENT!!!
In the V-berth area - where I have to put the Airhead in littlegull - there is no obvious place to run the all important vent.
Put that solar pieplate vent on the foredeck? Where?
Up on the cabin top? Where? My main cabin vent is there: the forehatch.
Out the side of the cabin in some trick vent? That would look BAD. Do those solar vents work vertically?
Do we have to pull the air out with a fan at the top OR can we blow the air up the tube to a tidy little dorade bippie?
How many turns can that vent hose take?
How does one disguise the vent hose snake in a well appointed yacht?
Any ideas?
I think I have an idea.

I do not like the foredeck, or the cabin top for the little vent. I was thinking that a small vertical dorade box on the inside of the cabin just aft of the port port....

Something like a smallish 4"x6" (?) box, with the outside opening on the bottom (air comes in, water drains out through the same hole). Air goes up and over a baffle and out the bottom of the box. Cover the little hole with a small clamshell (might even use one of the ones that came off of the lazy-rat).

As for the hose connection, have a radiused in tube coming off of the bottom of the dorade box and following the inside of the side deck and down to the area under the shelf... where it can connect to the MFG supplied hose.

Of course that is how I would like to do it, probably end up running the tube directly to the bottom of the dorade box...