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Rosalie B.
 
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Default Shower water consumption

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"Lloyd Sumpter" wrote:

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:53:19 +0000, Kelton Joyner wrote:

Well...see...the problem isn't me. I'm perfectly down with "boat showers".
In fact, when I was living aboard, I used a large sponge and did just
fine.

But my Lady takes...well.."long" showers. Sometimes she uses up all the
water in our 60-gal tank at home (OK, maybe not QUITE that long...) YOU
wanna tell her to take a "boat shower"? Go ahead...I'll watch!


I take LONG LONG showers at home. I don't when I'm on a boat. I just
don't.

I don't even take long showers in the marinas. I really prefer to
shower on the boat, but we usually have stuff in the shower so it's
not as convenient.

My second choice after our own boat (which does carry 400 gallons of
water so it's not like we have to conserve much even in the Bahamas
although we do) is to swim and then shower on deck (assuming warm
weather). We have a pressure fresh water connection on deck, and it
doesn't need to be hot water in warm weather. I wear a bathing suit
if there are people around for fear of striking them blind.


What I'm trying to avoid is the stampede to the coin showers every time we
get to a dock. And the "luxury" of standing under a hot (or sometimes
cool) shower for several minutes is a large part of it.


Coin showers? Where are you?



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