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Check the screen on the faucet, maybe full of stuff......

I second the above answer. When I bought my Carver the sink faucet in the galley did not have good flow. I removed the end cap and checked out the screen. It was almost totally plugged up with gunk. I did the same for the faucet in the head and both are flowing freely now. It's probably just gunked up.

Soak it in white vinegar or CLR!

I was on my boat the past couple of days and just for the heck of it I pulled both the galley and head faucet screens. The one in the galley had a little bit of stuff in it and the head faucet was clear. Both are once again fully cleared and flow is good.

My galley sink frequently gets very tiny pieces of white plastic stuck in the screen. Like oversized salt crystals. If there's enough then it will affect the flow. Have no idea where they are coming from but I suspect somewhere in the valves or the base of the faucet, as none of the other faucets get them and all the plumbing was replaced with PEX.

Sweet!

KM, if all of the pipe was replaced with pex, the installer may have used a hack saw rather than a PVC cutter. That would leave a lot of little plastic salt type crystals.
maybe remove all of your screens and flush a bunch of water through all of the fixtures?

tomschauer wrote:Source of the post KM, if all of the pipe was replaced with pex, the installer may have used a hack saw rather than a PVC cutter. That would leave a lot of little plastic salt type crystals.
maybe remove all of your screens and flush a bunch of water through all of the fixtures?

I was the one who replaced all the piping, and I did use the PEX cutter. It only really happens on the galley faucet and the bits are little pieces of white plastic, not red or blue (although every now and then I might see some bits in the other faucets). I've flushed and flushed thinking I would finally get rid of them to no avail. I also took apart the faucet and replaced all the seals and don't see anything that looks like it's the culprit. At some point I'm going to re-do the entire galley with new counter and would put a new faucet in.

Does anyone have a diagram of the galley faucet. W2987 caver Mariner. We are putting a new top on the existing. One and need to remove the facuetS

White pieces could be calcium building up in water heater and getting flushed out into the lines