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fresh water maker
I'm wondering how many sailors here use a "fresh water maker" and what their experience has been like. No matter what boat I buy I will have some type of shower, even if I have to run a line and shower in the cockpit. It would be nice to have a 2 week supply of fresh water but I don't think 20 gallons or so will do it (split 2 or 3 ways). I don't mind stinking, but I do like to wash the salt off at night.
My next boat will be a transitional boat in the sense that I'd like to someday live-aboard, and this is a step in that direction. I'd use this boat for longer cruises than my smaller Starwind, and I plan to research and develop my own vision of the ideal equipment. Wind and solar gennys and solar hot water are a given, but what about fresh water? This one looks interesting. I liked the idea of 30kV to eliminate biological stowaways. http://www.spectrawatermakers.com/articles/mfww.html Scout |
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How big is your holding tank? The reason I ask is, on a 2
week cruise you will probably, at least once, need to pump out, get ice, buy groceries, re-fuel ,stretch your legs, etc. which will necessitate stopping at a marina where you can fill your water tank. I have a 30 G water tank. It will last a week taking daily showers and washing dishes. I carry bottled water (and a case of rum) for drinking. -- Scott Vernon Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_ "Scout" wrote in message . .. I'm wondering how many sailors here use a "fresh water maker" and what their experience has been like. No matter what boat I buy I will have some type of shower, even if I have to run a line and shower in the cockpit. It would be nice to have a 2 week supply of fresh water but I don't think 20 gallons or so will do it (split 2 or 3 ways). I don't mind stinking, but I do like to wash the salt off at night. My next boat will be a transitional boat in the sense that I'd like to someday live-aboard, and this is a step in that direction. I'd use this boat for longer cruises than my smaller Starwind, and I plan to research and develop my own vision of the ideal equipment. Wind and solar gennys and solar hot water are a given, but what about fresh water? This one looks interesting. I liked the idea of 30kV to eliminate biological stowaways. http://www.spectrawatermakers.com/articles/mfww.html Scout |
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My wife and I have gone a month on a 40 gallon (UK gallon) water tank.
You bathe in the sea and wash clothes in sea water. The only problem was when the weather changed from dry to humid all the clothes turned damp... "Scotty" wrote in message ... How big is your holding tank? The reason I ask is, on a 2 week cruise you will probably, at least once, need to pump out, get ice, buy groceries, re-fuel ,stretch your legs, etc. which will necessitate stopping at a marina where you can fill your water tank. I have a 30 G water tank. It will last a week taking daily showers and washing dishes. I carry bottled water (and a case of rum) for drinking. -- Scott Vernon Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_ "Scout" wrote in message . .. I'm wondering how many sailors here use a "fresh water maker" and what their experience has been like. No matter what boat I buy I will have some type of shower, even if I have to run a line and shower in the cockpit. It would be nice to have a 2 week supply of fresh water but I don't think 20 gallons or so will do it (split 2 or 3 ways). I don't mind stinking, but I do like to wash the salt off at night. My next boat will be a transitional boat in the sense that I'd like to someday live-aboard, and this is a step in that direction. I'd use this boat for longer cruises than my smaller Starwind, and I plan to research and develop my own vision of the ideal equipment. Wind and solar gennys and solar hot water are a given, but what about fresh water? This one looks interesting. I liked the idea of 30kV to eliminate biological stowaways. http://www.spectrawatermakers.com/articles/mfww.html Scout |
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I bathe with the anchorage water when I can, but some of
them have very dirty water. On the Mac, I used one of those solar showers. Wash with Bay water, rinse off with the solar shower. I save my dirty wash for my wife back home. Scotty "Edgar" wrote in message . .. My wife and I have gone a month on a 40 gallon (UK gallon) water tank. You bathe in the sea and wash clothes in sea water. The only problem was when the weather changed from dry to humid all the clothes turned damp... "Scotty" wrote in message ... How big is your holding tank? The reason I ask is, on a 2 week cruise you will probably, at least once, need to pump out, get ice, buy groceries, re-fuel ,stretch your legs, etc. which will necessitate stopping at a marina where you can fill your water tank. I have a 30 G water tank. It will last a week taking daily showers and washing dishes. I carry bottled water (and a case of rum) for drinking. -- Scott Vernon Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_ "Scout" wrote in message . .. I'm wondering how many sailors here use a "fresh water maker" and what their experience has been like. No matter what boat I buy I will have some type of shower, even if I have to run a line and shower in the cockpit. It would be nice to have a 2 week supply of fresh water but I don't think 20 gallons or so will do it (split 2 or 3 ways). I don't mind stinking, but I do like to wash the salt off at night. My next boat will be a transitional boat in the sense that I'd like to someday live-aboard, and this is a step in that direction. I'd use this boat for longer cruises than my smaller Starwind, and I plan to research and develop my own vision of the ideal equipment. Wind and solar gennys and solar hot water are a given, but what about fresh water? This one looks interesting. I liked the idea of 30kV to eliminate biological stowaways. http://www.spectrawatermakers.com/articles/mfww.html Scout |
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I believe it's a 20 gallon tank and a 5 gallon SS hot water tank. I usually
carry an extra 5 gallons jug as well. I seem to dehydrate quickly when sailing. Maybe that will change with a bimini. ) Scout "Scotty" wrote in message ... How big is your holding tank? The reason I ask is, on a 2 week cruise you will probably, at least once, need to pump out, get ice, buy groceries, re-fuel ,stretch your legs, etc. which will necessitate stopping at a marina where you can fill your water tank. I have a 30 G water tank. It will last a week taking daily showers and washing dishes. I carry bottled water (and a case of rum) for drinking. -- Scott Vernon Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_ "Scout" wrote in message . .. I'm wondering how many sailors here use a "fresh water maker" and what their experience has been like. No matter what boat I buy I will have some type of shower, even if I have to run a line and shower in the cockpit. It would be nice to have a 2 week supply of fresh water but I don't think 20 gallons or so will do it (split 2 or 3 ways). I don't mind stinking, but I do like to wash the salt off at night. My next boat will be a transitional boat in the sense that I'd like to someday live-aboard, and this is a step in that direction. I'd use this boat for longer cruises than my smaller Starwind, and I plan to research and develop my own vision of the ideal equipment. Wind and solar gennys and solar hot water are a given, but what about fresh water? This one looks interesting. I liked the idea of 30kV to eliminate biological stowaways. http://www.spectrawatermakers.com/articles/mfww.html Scout |
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fresh water maker/ towable
Scout wrote: Check this out Scout, you could take it to your live-aboard.......... and uses no electricity at all! http://www.yach****ermaker.com/watermaker%20cruise.htm Joe I'm wondering how many sailors here use a "fresh water maker" and what their experience has been like. No matter what boat I buy I will have some type of shower, even if I have to run a line and shower in the cockpit. It would be nice to have a 2 week supply of fresh water but I don't think 20 gallons or so will do it (split 2 or 3 ways). I don't mind stinking, but I do like to wash the salt off at night. My next boat will be a transitional boat in the sense that I'd like to someday live-aboard, and this is a step in that direction. I'd use this boat for longer cruises than my smaller Starwind, and I plan to research and develop my own vision of the ideal equipment. Wind and solar gennys and solar hot water are a given, but what about fresh water? This one looks interesting. I liked the idea of 30kV to eliminate biological stowaways. http://www.spectrawatermakers.com/articles/mfww.html Scout ------=_NextPart_000_004D_01C6D88C.C21B54F0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Google-AttachSize: 1714 !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" HTMLHEAD META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR STYLE/STYLE /HEAD BODY bgColor=#ffffff DIVFONT face=Arial size=2I'm wondering how many sailors here use a "fresh water maker" and what their experience has been like. No matter what boat I buy I will have some type of shower, even if I have to run a line and shower in the cockpit. It would be nice to have a 2 week supply of fresh water but I don't think 20 gallons or so will do it (split 2 or 3 ways). I don't mind stinking, but I do like to wash the salt off at night. /FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT /DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2My next boat will be a transitional boat in the sense that I'd like to someday live-aboard, and this is a step in that direction. I'd use this boat for longer cruises than my smaller Starwind, and I plan to research and develop my own vision of the ideal equipment. Wind and solar gennys and solar hot water are a given, but what about fresh water?/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT /DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2This one looks interesting. I liked the idea of 30kV to eliminate biological stowaways./FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2A href="http://www.spectrawatermakers.com/articles/mfww.html"http://www.spectrawatermakers.com/articles/mfww.html/A/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT /DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2Scout/FONT/DIV/BODY/HTML ------=_NextPart_000_004D_01C6D88C.C21B54F0-- |
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fresh water maker/ towable
How would that work when tied up ( liveaboard) ? Will
current alone produce water? Scotty "Joe" wrote in message oups.com.. .. Scout wrote: Check this out Scout, you could take it to your live-aboard.......... and uses no electricity at all! http://www.yach****ermaker.com/watermaker%20cruise.htm Joe I'm wondering how many sailors here use a "fresh water maker" and what their experience has been like. No matter what boat I buy I will have some type of shower, even if I have to run a line and shower in the cockpit. It would be nice to have a 2 week supply of fresh water but I don't think 20 gallons or so will do it (split 2 or 3 ways). I don't mind stinking, but I do like to wash the salt off at night. My next boat will be a transitional boat in the sense that I'd like to someday live-aboard, and this is a step in that direction. I'd use this boat for longer cruises than my smaller Starwind, and I plan to research and develop my own vision of the ideal equipment. Wind and solar gennys and solar hot water are a given, but what about fresh water? This one looks interesting. I liked the idea of 30kV to eliminate biological stowaways. http://www.spectrawatermakers.com/articles/mfww.html Scout ------=_NextPart_000_004D_01C6D88C.C21B54F0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Google-AttachSize: 1714 !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" HTMLHEAD META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR STYLE/STYLE /HEAD BODY bgColor=#ffffff DIVFONT face=Arial size=2I'm wondering how many sailors here use a "fresh water maker" and what their experience has been like. No matter what boat I buy I will have some type of shower, even if I have to run a line and shower in the cockpit. It would be nice to have a 2 week supply of fresh water but I don't think 20 gallons or so will do it (split 2 or 3 ways). I don't mind stinking, but I do like to wash the salt off at night. /FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT /DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2My next boat will be a transitional boat in the sense that I'd like to someday live-aboard, and this is a step in that direction. I'd use this boat for longer cruises than my smaller Starwind, and I plan to research and develop my own vision of the ideal equipment. Wind and solar gennys and solar hot water are a given, but what about fresh water?/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT /DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2This one looks interesting. I liked the idea of 30kV to eliminate biological stowaways./FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2A href="http://www.spectrawatermakers.com/articles/mfww.html" http://www.spectrawatermakers.com/articles/mfww.html/A/FO NT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT /DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2Scout/FONT/DIV/BODY/HTML ------=_NextPart_000_004D_01C6D88C.C21B54F0-- |
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Scotty wrote: How would that work when tied up ( liveaboard) ? Will current alone produce water? Most likely at a slow drip rate, but most people who live aboard have access to potable water, unless they are living on the hook, and still they can row out water in a dink. Just looks like a great crusing item, no thru hulls, only 2 grand. Most water makers would clog up at most anchorages anyway. Joe |
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"Joe" wrote in message oups.com.. .. Scotty wrote: How would that work when tied up ( liveaboard) ? Will current alone produce water? Most likely at a slow drip rate, but most people who live aboard have access to potable water, unless they are living on the hook, and still they can row out water in a dink. Just looks like a great crusing item, no thru hulls, only 2 grand. Most water makers would clog up at most anchorages anyway. Right you are, Joe, I wasn't thinking. BTW, thatlooks like a great product. Hope it lasts. Scotty |
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"Joe" wrote in message
oups.com... Scout wrote: Check this out Scout, you could take it to your live-aboard.......... and uses no electricity at all! http://www.yach****ermaker.com/watermaker%20cruise.htm Joe I'm wondering how many sailors here use a "fresh water maker" and what their experience has been like. No matter what boat I buy I will have some type of shower, even if I have to run a line and shower in the cockpit. It would be nice to have a 2 week supply of fresh water but I don't think 20 gallons or so will do it (split 2 or 3 ways). I don't mind stinking, but I do like to wash the salt off at night. My next boat will be a transitional boat in the sense that I'd like to someday live-aboard, and this is a step in that direction. I'd use this boat for longer cruises than my smaller Starwind, and I plan to research and develop my own vision of the ideal equipment. Wind and solar gennys and solar hot water are a given, but what about fresh water? This one looks interesting. I liked the idea of 30kV to eliminate biological stowaways. http://www.spectrawatermakers.com/articles/mfww.html Scout ------=_NextPart_000_004D_01C6D88C.C21B54F0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Google-AttachSize: 1714 !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" HTMLHEAD META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR STYLE/STYLE /HEAD BODY bgColor=#ffffff DIVFONT face=Arial size=2I'm wondering how many sailors here use a "fresh water maker" and what their experience has been like. No matter what boat I buy I will have some type of shower, even if I have to run a line and shower in the cockpit. It would be nice to have a 2 week supply of fresh water but I don't think 20 gallons or so will do it (split 2 or 3 ways). I don't mind stinking, but I do like to wash the salt off at night. /FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT /DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2My next boat will be a transitional boat in the sense that I'd like to someday live-aboard, and this is a step in that direction. I'd use this boat for longer cruises than my smaller Starwind, and I plan to research and develop my own vision of the ideal equipment. Wind and solar gennys and solar hot water are a given, but what about fresh water?/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT /DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2This one looks interesting. I liked the idea of 30kV to eliminate biological stowaways./FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2A href="http://www.spectrawatermakers.com/articles/mfww.html"http://www.spectrawatermakers.com/articles/mfww.html/A/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2/FONT /DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2Scout/FONT/DIV/BODY/HTML ------=_NextPart_000_004D_01C6D88C.C21B54F0-- Pretty cool Joe, pretty cool... I wonder how it does with biological buggers. Thanks Scout |
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