Hi,

Far Cove is set up for a shower, but was never installed. I was looking
at "low-flow" showerheads, and they say they use 2.5gpm. Egad - for a
5-min shower that's over 10 gallons! Far Cove has 50gal of water, and I'm
thinking of addding another 20gal tank, but still: 10 gals per shower??

Is this realistic? What is a practical estimate of how much water an
on-board shower will take?

Lloyd Sumpter
"Far Cove" Catalina 36

Do it like the motor home gang .... turn it on , get wet, turn it off,
soap up and wash, turn it back on to rinse off

Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
Hi,

Far Cove is set up for a shower, but was never installed. I was looking
at "low-flow" showerheads, and they say they use 2.5gpm. Egad - for a
5-min shower that's over 10 gallons! Far Cove has 50gal of water, and I'm
thinking of addding another 20gal tank, but still: 10 gals per shower??

Is this realistic? What is a practical estimate of how much water an
on-board shower will take?

Lloyd Sumpter
"Far Cove" Catalina 36

At 50 cents/gallon the first instruction I give to new crew on a charter
is how to use the shower. It is not like a lubber's shower. There
should be a button on the shower head to turn the water on and off.
Adjust the tepnerature and wet down. Then turn off the water while you
soap up and turn it on again to rense. Anyone using more than a couple
of gallons will be tied to that big hemp hauser next time we clean
bottom and keel hauled!

Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
Hi,

Far Cove is set up for a shower, but was never installed. I was looking
at "low-flow" showerheads, and they say they use 2.5gpm. Egad - for a
5-min shower that's over 10 gallons! Far Cove has 50gal of water, and I'm
thinking of addding another 20gal tank, but still: 10 gals per shower??

Is this realistic? What is a practical estimate of how much water an
on-board shower will take?

Lloyd Sumpter
"Far Cove" Catalina 36


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On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 19:10:08 -0500, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:

At 50 cents/gallon the first instruction I give to new crew on a charter
is how to use the shower. It is not like a lubber's shower. There
should be a button on the shower head to turn the water on and off.
Adjust the tepnerature and wet down. Then turn off the water while you
soap up and turn it on again to rense. Anyone using more than a couple
of gallons will be tied to that big hemp hauser next time we clean
bottom and keel hauled!

How do you keep 'em from fouling the screw?



Larry W4CSC

"Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"

Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message:
"Then turn off the water while you soap up and turn it on again to rense."
Glenn, I think the Southern accent is showing!!!

Hummm, sailors watching other sailors in the shower. In the Army we
always suspected something like that about the Navy.

Ron, RA

Too bad the Army didn't watch their people a little more closely.
Then there wouldn't have been Moslem traitors in their ranks.....eh?

As to the Navy....Don't ask, don't tell....just like the Army....(c;


On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 08:24:47 -0500 (EST), (Ron
Thornton) wrote:

Hummm, sailors watching other sailors in the shower. In the Army we
always suspected something like that about the Navy.

Ron, RA



Larry W4CSC

"Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"

Too bad the Army didn't watch their people a little more closely.
Then there wouldn't have been Moslem traitors in their ranks.....eh?

As to the Navy....Don't ask, don't tell....just like the Army....(c;


On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 08:24:47 -0500 (EST), (Ron
Thornton) wrote:

Hummm, sailors watching other sailors in the shower. In the Army we
always suspected something like that about the Navy.

Ron, RA



Larry W4CSC

"Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"

Hummm, sailors watching other sailors in the shower. In the Army we
always suspected something like that about the Navy.

Ron, RA

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 19:10:08 -0500, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:

At 50 cents/gallon the first instruction I give to new crew on a charter
is how to use the shower. It is not like a lubber's shower. There
should be a button on the shower head to turn the water on and off.
Adjust the tepnerature and wet down. Then turn off the water while you
soap up and turn it on again to rense. Anyone using more than a couple
of gallons will be tied to that big hemp hauser next time we clean
bottom and keel hauled!

How do you keep 'em from fouling the screw?



Larry W4CSC

"Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"