This should work fine for direct "city water" connections, but remember
it'll filter out the chlorine as well. If you're filling your FW tanks, I
personally like that in there, at least to start. Now sediment filters are
another story entirely...

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Keith
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Boating isn't dangerous. Sinking is what's dangerous.
"Paul" wrote in message
ble.rogers.com...
This is slightly off the topic of the thread but I was thinking about
Donny's water issue and came upon an idea. This won't help Donny, like I
said it's a little off topic.

On my house I have a "whole house" water filter inline in the 3/4" pipe
that
enters into the basement. Before the water forks off to the hot water tank
and the other myriad destinations it runs through an activated charcoal
filter. The filter doesn't seem to drop the water pressure at all and
makes
a noticeable difference in the quality of the water (the water even feels
different, and we have good water to begin with).

I first got one of these when I lived in the country and we had really bad
water that tasted bad and left stains in the porcelain -- I don't want to
be
too graphic but the water was also discoloured and the toilet always
looked
as if it hadn't been flushed.

Anyway, the thing was $50 from Canadian Tire and it made a tremendous
difference. It's not often I find a product that works as well as I had
hoped. After installing it you could drink the water right out of the tap,
I
can only imagine how many years of life it added to my hot water tank.

So reading this thread it occured to me that it would be a simple thing to
rig a dockside equivalent.

Dockside water hose in one side -- filter rig -- outlet hose to fill the
water tank in the boat.

If you were particularly handy you could make a nice housing for it and
perhaps a method to clip it to a cleat.

Excellent point, Keith.

Also somewhat off-topic...filtering not only removes chlorine, but it
also removes other things added to municipal water--notably flouride.
Adding flouride to municipal water had all but eradicated tooth decay,
especially in children...but due to the huge increase in the use of
filtered and bottled water, dentists have reported seeing a major
increase in tooth decay, especially in children, again.

Peggie
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Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html


Keith wrote:
This should work fine for direct "city water" connections, but remember
it'll filter out the chlorine as well. If you're filling your FW tanks, I
personally like that in there, at least to start. Now sediment filters are
another story entirely...

Wow, that's something I never even thought of.

You would think they might make a mention of that on the label somewhere ...
yeah, I know.


"Peggie Hall" wrote in message
...
Excellent point, Keith.

Also somewhat off-topic...filtering not only removes chlorine, but it
also removes other things added to municipal water--notably flouride.
Adding flouride to municipal water had all but eradicated tooth decay,
especially in children...but due to the huge increase in the use of
filtered and bottled water, dentists have reported seeing a major
increase in tooth decay, especially in children, again.

Peggie
----------
Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://www.seaworthy.com/html/get_ri...oat_odors.html


Keith wrote:
This should work fine for direct "city water" connections, but remember
it'll filter out the chlorine as well. If you're filling your FW tanks,
I
personally like that in there, at least to start. Now sediment filters
are
another story entirely...