Small Portable Water maker
 

Wondering if anyone has heard/seen/had any such thing.

We have a 22' sailboat we would like to use it in brackisk/salt water as
well as fresh. Ability to carry it on hikes/camping would be great as well.
Large capacity is not critical (1-2 gal per day would be plenty).

There are plenty of purifiers on the market (Katadyn, First Need, MSR,
etc.), but none can desalinate.

Any leads would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Don

"Don and Deb" wrote in message
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Wondering if anyone has heard/seen/had any such thing.

We have a 22' sailboat we would like to use it in brackisk/salt water as
well as fresh. Ability to carry it on hikes/camping would be great as
well.
Large capacity is not critical (1-2 gal per day would be plenty).

There are plenty of purifiers on the market (Katadyn, First Need, MSR,
etc.), but none can desalinate.

Any leads would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Don



I'm pretty sure Pur makes one designed for liferaft use; that would work for
hiking and camping, too, I think. Memory has it as PUR6 (?).

L8R

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"Don and Deb" wrote:

Wondering if anyone has heard/seen/had any such thing.

We have a 22' sailboat we would like to use it in brackisk/salt water as
well as fresh. Ability to carry it on hikes/camping would be great as well.
Large capacity is not critical (1-2 gal per day would be plenty).

There are plenty of purifiers on the market (Katadyn, First Need, MSR,
etc.), but none can desalinate.

Any leads would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Don

How much are you willing to spend? The *Katadyn SURVIVOR series, (6 or
35) do what you want, but they are mucho expensive. the 35 weighs 7
pounds and produces 1.2 gal per hour and the 6 weighs 2.5 pounds and
produces an ounce in 2 minutes.

For info: http://www.katadyn.com/site/int/home...e/ou_products/

harlan

Have no affiliation with Pur or Katadyn.

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To respond, obviously drop the "nospan"?

On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 02:03:00 GMT, "Don and Deb"
wrote:

Wondering if anyone has heard/seen/had any such thing.

We have a 22' sailboat we would like to use it in brackisk/salt water as
well as fresh. Ability to carry it on hikes/camping would be great as well.
Large capacity is not critical (1-2 gal per day would be plenty).

There are plenty of purifiers on the market (Katadyn, First Need, MSR,
etc.), but none can desalinate.

Any leads would be appreciated.

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http://www.sailnet.com/store/item.cfm?pid=19593

search watermaker on Ebay... there are always lots of the manual ones
for sale for a fraction of the original price. I bought one for my life
boat.

Ed

Wayne.B wrote:

On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 02:03:00 GMT, "Don and Deb"
wrote:


Wondering if anyone has heard/seen/had any such thing.

We have a 22' sailboat we would like to use it in brackisk/salt water as
well as fresh. Ability to carry it on hikes/camping would be great as well.
Large capacity is not critical (1-2 gal per day would be plenty).

There are plenty of purifiers on the market (Katadyn, First Need, MSR,
etc.), but none can desalinate.

Any leads would be appreciated.


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http://www.sailnet.com/store/item.cfm?pid=19593

Don and Deb wrote:
Wondering if anyone has heard/seen/had any such thing.

We have a 22' sailboat we would like to use it in brackisk/salt water as
well as fresh. Ability to carry it on hikes/camping would be great as well.
Large capacity is not critical (1-2 gal per day would be plenty).

There are plenty of purifiers on the market (Katadyn, First Need, MSR,
etc.), but none can desalinate.

The PUR 06 is strictly for survival purposes in a liferaft. It's
short handle makes it very hard to pump. The PUR 35 manual one is
much easier according to people who have used one.

But for a 22' sailboat, an extra 20 gallons of water in 3-5 gallon
jugs won't be too much of an extra burden and a LOT cheaper! Of
course for hiking it won't be much good, but the 35 is pretty heavy to
carry too...

Evan Gatehouse

Seagold desalinaters is one such unit and there are at least 10 other
manufacturers. They are reversosmosis units however a manual unit woll only
yeild 1 -5 leters of water an hour.. They work at increadably high pressures
so take enormous amounts of energy. Good luck Don S
"Don and Deb" wrote in message
...
Wondering if anyone has heard/seen/had any such thing.

We have a 22' sailboat we would like to use it in brackisk/salt water as
well as fresh. Ability to carry it on hikes/camping would be great as
well. Large capacity is not critical (1-2 gal per day would be plenty).

There are plenty of purifiers on the market (Katadyn, First Need, MSR,
etc.), but none can desalinate.

Any leads would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Don

noddy wrote:

Seagold desalinaters is one such unit and there are at least 10 other
manufacturers. They are reversosmosis units however a manual unit woll only
yeild 1 -5 leters of water an hour.. They work at increadably high pressures
so take enormous amounts of energy. Good luck Don S
"Don and Deb" wrote in message
...

Wondering if anyone has heard/seen/had any such thing.

We have a 22' sailboat we would like to use it in brackisk/salt water as
well as fresh. Ability to carry it on hikes/camping would be great as
well. Large capacity is not critical (1-2 gal per day would be plenty).

There are plenty of purifiers on the market (Katadyn, First Need, MSR,
etc.), but none can desalinate.

Any leads would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Don



Check out Zenon.

Terry K

I hope that you are aware the RO units operate under the "ue it or lose it"
theory. If you do not operate it every 5 days, you need to backflush
(without chorine in the water) and use a storage agent.

I have a large on on my boat and do not even keep the mebranes in it.
Maybe on a long cruise where I cannot get water I will crank it back up.


"Terry Spragg" wrote in message
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noddy wrote:

Seagold desalinaters is one such unit and there are at least 10 other
manufacturers. They are reversosmosis units however a manual unit woll
only yeild 1 -5 leters of water an hour.. They work at increadably high
pressures so take enormous amounts of energy. Good luck Don S
"Don and Deb" wrote in message
...

Wondering if anyone has heard/seen/had any such thing.

We have a 22' sailboat we would like to use it in brackisk/salt water as
well as fresh. Ability to carry it on hikes/camping would be great as
well. Large capacity is not critical (1-2 gal per day would be plenty).

There are plenty of purifiers on the market (Katadyn, First Need, MSR,
etc.), but none can desalinate.

Any leads would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Don



Check out Zenon.

Terry K

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:05:07 GMT, "Phil Lewis"
wrote:

I hope that you are aware the RO units operate under the "ue it or lose it"
theory. If you do not operate it every 5 days, you need to backflush
(without chorine in the water) and use a storage agent.

I have a large on on my boat and do not even keep the mebranes in it.
Maybe on a long cruise where I cannot get water I will crank it back up.

So is the trick to keep the membranes out and stored until such time
as you run out of decent tanked water?

R.