Hot Water Tank Salvage & Repair | sailboat Refit in Alaskan Shipyard (Long Form, Slow TV)

An hour and sixteen minutes in the shipyard — salvaging, cleaning out, and fighting to reinstall the hot water tank aboard our 80’ steel schooner Alaskan Gypsy. This is long-form, slow-TV style boat refit: no shortcuts, no fast edits, just the real step-by-step battle. What’s inside this tank? Mud, rust, broken zincs, plumbing problems — and eventually, some kind of victory. Along the way you’ll see: • removing & salvaging the old hot water heater • flushing years of sediment & corrosion • replacing the zinc anode • fighting with stubborn fittings and leaks • warm water washing dreams • struggling to hook everything back up again If you like real DIY boat repair, the gritty details of refit life, or just long-form shipyard “slow TV,” settle in for the full watch. Related long-form refit struggles: • Packing Gland Fail (“The Gland Won”) → https://youtu.be/1ROSrbitFqg • Rusty Rudder Post Wrangle → https://youtu.be/9yUaLQFdQ4k 00:00 – Intro: Hot Water Tank Salvage Begins 06:00 – Pulling the Tank Free from Its Spot 12:00 – First Look Inside: Mud & Sediment Everywhere 20:00 – Zinc Anode Check & Corrosion Concerns 28:00 – Flushing Out Years of Rust & Crud 38:00 – Scraping, Rinsing, and Salvage Work 50:00 – Plumbing Problems & Wrong Fittings 1:02:00 – New Zinc Installed, Tank Back Together 1:10:00 – Final Hookup Attempts (and Leaks!) 1:15:00 – Wrap-Up: Lessons Learned from the Hot Water Struggle Kool Kats by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/