Engine room bulkhead

Well Bryan made the engine room bulkhead using the floor space requirements for my batteries. However at four feet this does make the doorway a little tight.







I said the real criteria was the size of the dinette. Ie space for the calorifier and all its pipes. Annoyingly the calorifier has pipe outlets at the other end as well. Will need to contact the suppliers to tell us which pipes are which!

If anyone might have an idea there are two at the port/wall side. One top and one bottom both about 22mm. At the business end by the gangway there are two 22mm ones and two 15mm ones and a third 15mm one which I assume is the drainage one. And also the space for the immersion heater element.

So is it fresh cold in at the bottom port side? Or are these two the engine ones?

In which case at the other end the two 15mm are the fresh water and the two 22mm ones the Mikuni heating source?







This is where my batteries will go. There is room for them on the floor but we think we will raise them up to the height of the engine bulkhead and have the pipes running in the space underneath.

Bryan will reduce the width of the wall from 4ft to maybe 3ft 9 inches. The extra 3 inches in the door way will be a bonus. The step down will be then in the door way itself into the saloon. Original plan had a bit of a well in the engine room side.

Note to self:- Mustn't forget to paint the engine bay before we can no longer have easy access.