The batteries have been occupying the port aft corner of the engine room. Basically I needed the weight on the port side to offset the missing tanks and that was about the only place they could go and still reach the power cables. The batteries are there to power the 12 volt in the boat and the bilge pumps. They need to move to the other side of the boat as I switch operations to the starboard side. Plus, once gone, I could finish painting the port side. Here is the area where the batteries were after the painting.
Here they are now on the starboard side all wired up again. I only have four of the normal twelve batteries in place right now. That is all the room I have available. I just love dragging 80 pound batteries around, but at least they are not 160 pounds.
This is a picture of some of the plumbing I had to remove and replace. There are two vent lines connected to the port aft tank, two running forward to the port forward tank, a 4 inch vent for the engine blower, a red hot and blue cold water lines and a new ground wire for the tank itself.
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