BoatBanter.com - View Single Post - Advice needed - Drilling a small hole in my PWC footwells?

Larry

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Great idea. If I were him I would get a sponge on a short tether I
could hook on the vessel somewhere easy to reach..

I love cool ideas for PWC and used to try out all kinds of crazy stuff.

One great idea I had was to disconnect that stupid visibility sprayer on
the big Yamaha and convert it to a cooling shower because it's hot in
SC.

My shower head was a little plastic "sink shower" head you'd push over
the faucet to wash your hair, but not the round one. The hose came out
the side of this one and it was much smaller. A long piece of really
flexible latex surgical hose that would lay in the footwells without
coiling up was pushed over the original sprayer supply outlet on the jet
pump, directly. The shower ran all the time the engine was running
pumping cooling water into a footwell.

Cruising along, you get dried out from the constant wind going by then
get hotter from lack of evap cooling. Reach down in the footwell and
retrieve the "cockpit shower head" and turn it on your hair or spray it
into your PFD. It washes away the stinky sweat and that cold lake water
coming out of it is just like stepping into an air conditioned store
from out in the hot parking lot!

Later, after the "sea trials" and "testing phase", I rerouted the hose
inside the hull with a nice fitting through the hull under the seat so
the hose would drop into the hull like the portable shower hose in your
kitchen sink. A better shower head with a slide valve from an RV let me
quickly shut off/turn on the shower when appropriate, and made great
conversation when someone just couldn't help but ask what that
was...."Deck shower for the bikini swimmers", I'd tell them flatly.
"Every yacht should have a deck shower." Then, of course, you'd have to
show them how it worked....(c; It worked even at idle at the dock if
you got hot waiting....(c;

Waste Marine also has a neat little 12V fresh water pump for small boats
I installed for drinking water. A 3 gallon tank was tywrapped to the
support for the bow storage compartment away from the hot engine. Fill
the tank with crushed ice on the way to the ramp. Some styrofoam panels
were glued to it to make the ice still melt, but last all day. The cap
of this tank, made to supply water to a tent trailer camper sink, had a
suction hose inside the tank to the bottom and a fitting to connect the
suction hose of the pump to. The combo 12V pump and little silver
faucet with a push button to run the pump was installed above the
instrument panel to keep me from hitting it by accident. Need a cool
drink? Stop the ski almost anywhere or beach it bow in making the
kitchen faucet handy to the beach....press the button....COLD potable
water! Want more than water? Fill the tank with Kool Aid and crushed
ice! There's no reason to go thirsty on a PWC....too easy!

Please don't pee on the seat....sit sideways! Thanks!

Every PWC needs self-storing bungee cord spring lines.....another
invention with a little white PVC. No rope to suck into the pump!
Grab the hook, pull bungee out of hole in hull and hook to dock, even if
it doesn't have a cleat! Built in snubber for the waves. Release and
bungee retracts into hole in hull with only the hook in reach...DID I
MENTION NO ROPE WOUND UP AROUND THE DAMNED PROP?!