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Fresh Water Pump
- Mike11
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Fresh Water Pump
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- waybomb
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- Vessel Info: 1995 Boston Whaler Rage15
1987 3697 Carver Mariner
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1969 Glaspar Avalon /1969 Johnson Electromatic 85
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1988 Cougar Kevlar 46' with triple blown 572 ci
1995 Boston Whaler Rage
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- RGrew176
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waybomb wrote:Source of the post May I add, be safe. Disconnect the hose when you leave the boat. It can fill up pretty quickly if a line breaks.
99% of the time I use my onboard system. I forget the exact amount but when full my tanks carry 92 gallons of water. More than enough for most of my uses. The few times I do connect to dockside water I too always turn off the water at the faucet whenever I leave the boat for any amount of time.
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- km1125
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Re: Fresh Water Pump
Our on-board pump is usually set to a higher pressure than our dock supply, so if we left the pump on while we had the shore connection hooked up we'd still drain the tank.
Sometimes having the extra pressure in the pump is valuable. A few times I'd connect the hose to the tank (to f supply it with water) while using the on-board pump for pressure. Sometimes in the peak of summer our dock pressure would be so low that washing the boat with weak pressure was a problem. Using the on-board pump to supply the hose pressure solved that.
- chpsk8
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Re: Fresh Water Pump
For sure the best advice is to shut off that shore water when you leave the boat. We had a dock neighbor sink his boat overnight. His bilge pump couldn't keep up with the leaking water system.
- denpooch
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Re: Fresh Water Pump
When I travel and find myself at a transient dock I hook up to dockside water with an 'inline' water filter. As previously mentioned, shut off the power to your pump and the dock pressure takes care of the rest.
I too, shut off the water supply if we are going out for dinner, etc.
I also use the water filter when topping off the tanks.
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- Mike11
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- JohnS
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