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Dock water hook up
- ktmchance
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Dock water hook up
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- chpsk8
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Re: Dock water hook up
In theory the dock water does nothing more than bypass the tank. It feeds the water system after the pump instead of before it.
Dock water can have different pressure than your on board water pump. If you have high dock water pressure you could be exposing a leaking water line that wouldn't otherwise leak under boat pressure.
Just go slow through the troubleshooting. It's always something on a boat and a lot of the time it's something simple!
- g36
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Re: Dock water hook up
There is some good advice above...
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Re: Dock water hook up
bud37 wrote:Welcome to the forum......while you figure out what is leaking my advice is.....Do not leave the dockside water on when you leave the boat even for an hour.....shut it off at the dock and depressurize your onboard lines by opening a tap.
There is some good advice above...
What bud said…always turn off dock water when not on the boat.
There’s a lot of us 356 owners here and we can answer just about any question you come up with.
If you haven’t already, get a good flashlight and open every opening you can find, climb in the engine room, pull up the carpeting at the aft head door…there are 2-3 bilge openings underneath, including the aft sump pump, (clean it out while checking it out) lift up both mattresses and look underneath , make sure both AC units have a filter (mine didn’t, so I put them in) pull out the drawer in the aft night stand and lift the top off of the night stand…that’s how you can see the aux fuel tank in the swim platform. Open the anchor locker in the forward stateroom and make sure everything looks good there.
BTW, the steps going to the aft stateroom can be pulled up to access the engine room from the rear. Figure out how to do that before you need to.
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Re: Dock water hook up
Before we go down the wrong path with assumptions, make sure your air conditioners are shut off so their operation and overboard discharge doesn't confuse the issue. Have you been running the forward air conditioner during all this? Does this still happen if the air isn't running? If the air has been running during this time, check your forward shower sump which is where the fwd air condensate drips into and ensure the sump is working to pump the condensate overboard instead of overflowing into the bilge and activating the bilge pump. It would be a lot of condensate to run the sump pump every 5 minutes but it's possible if it's really humid down there and can be what's pumping instead of what you think is the bilge pump doing it.
Please confirm that the hose connected to the dockside water faucet on the dock is connected to your dockside water inlet fitting at the back of the boat.
So are you saying that when the dockside water is turned on, you have a discharge out of two separate outlets/thru-hulls? Is what you consider the overflow always discharging constantly as long as the dockside water is turned on and then stops if you shut the water off? If so, and you've confirmed it's actually the tank vent, then the check valve in your fresh water pump has failed or is fouled and allowing the dockside water to pass thru the pump, into the tank and overflowing through the vent. This check valve is what's supposed to prevent your tank from filling up while you have the dockside water pressure on. Where is the location of what you think is the tank vent that's discharging water?ktmchance wrote:Source of the post.... However when I turn the water hydrant on it seems to be pumping water into the boat causing the bilge to run and what looks to be an overflow vent on the front right of the boat.....
- ktmchance
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Re: Dock water hook up
Thank you again from letting us into the family.
Your help is comforting .
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