Sailing Water Maker

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Sailing water maker.

If you re worried about water quality in remote locations or fed up with running out of water after just a few days at anchor maybe it s time to consider installing a marine watermaker. Water is life and we are so happy that we can finally make our own drinking water. Water may be essential to life but it can also be a pain aboard a sailboat. When i bought satori 2014 a 1989 morgan 44 sailboat she came equipped with an older model water maker 12v little wonder 200 gallon per day which was installed in 1999.

For one thing it weighs a tremendous amount and tankage can take up a good deal of space especially aboard a smaller cruising boat. Having potable water anywhere on sea other than relying on shore based water. Honda dow filmtec general pump jabsco. Water tanks can also be a pain to top off especially in a remote foreign port.

Great for people who cruise and race due to ability to offload. Give room for manual conversion when the power driven ones fail. 9 from the membrane a quarter inch plastic line goes through a flow meter to a y valve which can be connected to the water tank for drinkable water and optionally to the sink. No more struggling with jerry cans and now we are even more independent on.

For the first few years of dock life i didn t have much use for it. They produce safe water when the quality of shore water is doubted. 10 from the other side of the membrane and pressure vessel connected by a high pressure line is a pressure gauge to 1 000 psi followed by a. What to consider when getting a sailboat watermaker.

Doubles as a salt water pressure washer with optional pressure washer gun. Since all of the watermakers that are currently available for cruising sailboats use this process for desalination the major differences between the systems are how you power the high pressure pump and the user interface. In the back of my head commissioning the existing water maker seemed like a huge task. Doubles as a salt water pressure washer with optional pressure washer gun works with mk1 electric and gasoline powered systems only.