There seem to be quite a few folks here who have recently bought new boats. For some it probably isn't their first boat, but for some it may be, so I'm just posting this as something to file away for future reference.
We finally got the 230 home yesterday for spring cleaning, wax, etc. For the first time, we pulled all the cupholders out to clean them and to make a long story short I dropped a screwdriver down into the area below the sink and behind the fresh water tank
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Getting it out involved removing a seat cover, a speaker, and a partition. It turned out to be a good thing, as this gave me easy (sort of) access to the fresh water tank, pump, etc. It gave me a chance to record the model number on the pump and so forth. Anyway, I noticed what appeared to be some light hard water deposits on the tank around the fill hose. Of course the hose clamp turned out to be loose - as did the clamps on every other fitting in that compartment. There was no evidence of other leakage, but it was only a matter of time. For the last year I've thought, "The boat's 2 years old now, I need to go around and tighten everything up." Well, lesson learned - after the first year, make sure you get it done.
Turned out the pump-out lines to the head were also loose to the point where the main discharge line had worked itself almost completely off it's fitting (ew). Thank heaven that didn't leak. Got that fixed up as well.
By this time I had lost my daylight, but next stop will be all the hoses in the engine compartment, including exhaust.
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