Navy shower.....Water on to get wet, water off to soap up, water on to
rinse....1 min tops? You don't HAVE to leave it run wide open....like
we do on Lionheart with its huge 200 gallon ballast water tank...(c;

Back in the Navy, the evaporator police used to watch us take showers
to make sure we were conserving boiler feed water. Of course, out on
the fantail, 8000 gallons per minute were flooding out of the
overflow/vents onto the main deck, getting the stern watch's shoes and
pants all wet.

Wonder what I did with that old Polaroid picture of the deluge....??

Navy slogan - "Help Conserve Fresh Water - Shower With A Friend!"



On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:01:59 -0800, "Lloyd Sumpter"
wrote:

Hi,

Far Cove is set up for a shower, but was never installed. I was looking
at "low-flow" showerheads, and they say they use 2.5gpm. Egad - for a
5-min shower that's over 10 gallons! Far Cove has 50gal of water, and I'm
thinking of addding another 20gal tank, but still: 10 gals per shower??

Is this realistic? What is a practical estimate of how much water an
on-board shower will take?

Lloyd Sumpter
"Far Cove" Catalina 36



Larry W4CSC

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