What the Heck is this?

[JamesG161]

I have a sea water pump for cleaning muddy anchors. With sand bottoms, I rarely turn the pump breaker on and use it. I have owned my boat for 2 years and we found a leak on the sea water faucet dripping into my anchor locker.
OMG it was SEA water and not from my fresh water tank!
We scrambled to find the hidden sea cock, strainer and pump. Well hidden under the forward cabin screwed teak boards. I tell this story as a clue.
But...
I found this PO device stuffed up there too.
What the HECK?

The black box is just my fiber optic camera to see behind walls and stuff.

Tag is from Ace Hardware, but the item number is not complete. One of the pieces has a flow direction arrow. It appears to be 4 pieces put together and the left tagged piece appears to have a quick disconnect type coupler.

A schooner of beer to who figures this out first.
Thanks
Jim...

 

[Gunni]

It is a hose quick disconnect attached to a push/pull valve via a nylon thread adaptor...with nipple and hose. Swapped out to your wash-down pump intake it would provide the ability to use your wash-down as a bilge pump.

 

[Benny17441]

Could it be a condensation discharge hose for a dehumidifier.

 

[centerline]

as Gunni said.... the arrow is the way you push the yellow into the black part to open the valve....
its very similar to convenience valves for oil/fuel buckets and containers so that you can invert the bucket up without spilling, then open the valve to dispense the contents....

it looks like it has been adapted for a different top secret purpose that only the PO knows the real answer to...

 

[Benny17441]

For winterizing? Could use to pour a schooner of beer.

 

[JamesG161]

Hmmm going back to the boat for a deeper look on all the ideas. There may be more parts too.
Thanks!
Jim...

 

[Jackdaw]

It's total bush league. ;^)

A crazy daisy chain of non-marine connectors of different materials, it has FIVE interfaces that can fail.

 

[dscribner]

Stuff the busy end into a bucket of water and pump quickly, kind of like high school. Does water pump up and out? If it does its a manual wash down gadget. Used to have one for my car. Cost $10 from a barker at a home show.

 

[weinie]

Just out of curiosity, is a schooner of beer more or less then a plethora?

 

[Gunni]

A plethora is Greek and Greek is of no use when discussing the measure of beer.

 

[Jackdaw]

A plethora is Greek and Greek is of no use when discussing the measure of beer.

Plus I can tell you firsthand the the craft beer renaissance we are enjoying here in the USA has NOT hit Greece. Nope. Not even close. If drank very cold on a very hot day, you can actually sorta enjoy these things.

 

[Benny17441]

Craft beers is just a market term to define low production beer brewing. Some are good and some not so good and many lack consistency. From the Greeks I have tried the Hellas and the Mythos and they are pretty good. I happen to like the taste of European beers. As far as Budweiser and Miller Light they are just like refreshments on a hot day.

 

[Kermit]

Just out of curiosity, is a schooner of beer more or less then a plethora?

I'm thinking plethora is more.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schooner_(glass)

 

[31seahorse]

Memories of our trip to Greece in '93 or '94......"Dio Alpha, para calo." Dinner at a roof-top restaurant below the Acropalis (sp). A hair raising bus ride along the spine of Thiera. Hard boiled eggs and jelly bread for breakfast - you just can't get good stuff like that in the US. I also remember a plethora of lovely ladies at the topless beaches.
But, I digress........ RE: original post. I think I threw that out after spilling diesel fuel all over the cockpit!

 

[woodster]

jim i have no idea what that is but that is a nice case it's sitting on

 

[Kermit]

jim i have no idea what that is but that is a nice case it's sitting on

A big thumb up to the Woodster.
And a beer.

 

[woodster]

the more i look at it..... the more it looks like a filler hose and adapter for dispensing oil from a qt container or a syphon hose of some sort maybe to prime the wash down pump....hell i don't know why you ask all these questions...you know the great carnac is dead

 

[Benny17441]

Last try, the PO had a fuel can cap with a hose laying around and every time he found something with the right thread he just attached them together. Instead of having different things laying around he assembled a do-hicky.

 

[JamesG161]

I am still laughing at the beer stuff. I have always seen the "grog" mugs of sailors and maybe it should be called a "tall boy", but I meant a EXTRA LARGE COLD BEER.

I'm thinking plethora is more.

The more the merrier to begin sing sailing ditties and telling of high seas adventures.

jim i have no idea what that is but that is a nice case it's sitting on

The black case contains a great fiber optic camera to snake a lit tip under my aft hold tank, that was a blocked bilge drain. I found 10 years of dirt and now wet rotten shim wood used to level the tank. A great tool when needed.

That unknown device was someone's brainstorm that may be a "slight drizzle". So far @Gunni and @centerline must have NOT drank beer before commenting. My bet is with them. I am going to search for the female end of the quick disconnect.

I may sell it on Craig's list.
Jim...

 

[JerryA]

It is an adapter that screws to a quart of gear lube. The yellow and black sections twist to turn the flow off/on. This way you can put the hose in the filler hole and then open the flow of lube. Then stop the flow when done. A lot less mess when trying to fill in a dark area you can't get to. Really, I own one. Hold the black part and turn the yellow part a quarter turn.

JerryA