On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:10:23 +0000, Peggie Hall wrote:

Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
Hi

Peggy, I read your book (cover to cover!) and discovered a "why" but
not a "how to fix".

Far Cove has a salt-water spigot in the galley sink, run by a
foot-pump. VERY handy, but the first dozen or so pumps stink worse than
sewage! I understand that's probably because of the critters in the salt
water dying in the hoses and pump. I can replace them, but how do I
prevent this from happening again? I can't flush this system with fresh
water easily, can't clean...

Any ideas?

The only cure/prevention for a stagnant sea water problem is, flush the
sea water out before it can stagnate. And the only thing I can think of
that might help you would be to tee a piece of hose into the line, with
a shut-off valve, that you can stick into a jug of clean water and pump
that through the faucet to rinse out the sea water after you close the
seacock.

A couple of people whose head sink drain and toilet intake locations
make it impossible to tee 'em to together to flush the seawater out of
their toilets have told me recently that that's how they've solved the
problem in their toilets--just a line teed into the head intake that
they can stick in a gallon milk jug.


Thanks, Peggy!

Right now, this intake shares a thruhull with the engine's raw-water
inlet. I was thinking of moving it to the galley sink drain (closer,
easier access). If I did, I could flush it by turning off the seacock and
filling the sink with fresh water. But would the sink drain "yukky-stuff"
end up flowing back into this spigot too much?

Lloyd