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Water collection
"tbuck" wrote in message
... I have been told that it is quite possible to catch all the water required for two people when cruising the Caribbean and further south. Has anyone devised a good system? Is the rain water filtered (bugs etc) or stored directly to the main tank. I spoke to one cruiser who would rinse the deck during a rain storm then had the deck drain piped to a tank. I'm not sure if this water was used for drinking or washing etc. I've not heard of scuppers being the feed source, though I imagine it ought to work as well. The various folks I've talked to about the subject used the actual fill. They'd see a squall coming, wash the deck with the deck washdown, let the initial burst rinse, and then block the scuppers and direct the water to the fill. Of course, that requires a toe rail which will channel, rather than shed, water, and fill pipes at least reasonably low for flow to them. Others use awnings with pockets sewn into them (less surface area, but easier to keep clean) and hose connectors to the same effect, without the need for a deck configuration. One of the boats we've been considering has the fills in the cockpit deck, which would require something like that. And, about the quantity, it will depend a great deal on the size and configuration of your catch surface (how much area). One correspondent had an Endeavour 43, and they'd rate the squalls they saw coming in gallons. They wouldn't bother for less than a 50 gallon squall, but frequently had 150 gallons. This was in the Caribbean, based out of STT and cruising all the way to Venezuela. Certainly, the ability to catch water is one of our hot buttons in a boat we look at. L8R Skip and Lydia |
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Water collection
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:02:12 -0700, Skip Gundlach wrote
(in message . net): "tbuck" wrote in message ... I have been told that it is quite possible to catch all the water required for two people when cruising the Caribbean and further south. Has anyone devised a good system? Is the rain water filtered (bugs etc) or stored directly to the main tank. I spoke to one cruiser who would rinse the deck during a rain storm then had the deck drain piped to a tank. I'm not sure if this water was used for drinking or washing etc. I've not heard of scuppers being the feed source, though I imagine it ought to work as well. My friend has a Morris Yachts' Frances 26. The foredeck is recessed creating a shallow (about 3" deep) "well deck" of sorts. At the aft port corner there is a drain plumbed to a hose bibb below. If he wants to use rain water, he lets the deck get flushed off first, then plugs up the scuppers with rags or whatever then attaches a short garden hose to the hose bibb below and directs the rainwater wherever he wants it: jugs, tanks, sink, wherever. Aboutthe slickest set-up I've ever seen. |
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