On Oct 2, 7:41 pm, Jere Lull wrote:
On 2007-10-02 15:40:40 -0400, druid said:

I've always seen plastic watertanks, but the boat I'm buying has an old
aluminum one (I think it's alum: it's metal, and not SS). Is there any
advantage to alum over plastic or vice-versa? I'm planning on
replacing it with a bigger one, and first I thought plastic, but should
I consider aluminum instead? I've always disliked the "plastic" taste
in the water from a plastic tank.

I prefer aluminum over plastic and wouldn't replace a perfectly good
tank with a bigger one, but would add tanks in otherwise unused corners
of the boat.


(Wow - I really started a war on this one - sorry!)

All things being equal, I'd agree: add a tank rather than replace.
However, this is a 28-ft boat and there aren't a lot of options. The
existing tank is cylindrical, with no access port. And it's sitting
under the V-berth, where there's lots of room for more tanks.... if
this was was taken out. So my Plan is to remove the existing tank, put
in a platform where the old tank was, and put in His'n'hers water and
holding tank. I can't do that without removing the existing tank
(which sounds like not a bad idea anyway: better safe than sorry for
an unscrubbable, un-lineable aluminum tank!)

druid
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