[C320-list] Potable Water filter and Bilge Pump

[jackbrennan]

Funny. When I take on water, I add a couple of teaspoons of bleach. It kills everything and makes for drinkable, tasty water. The chlorine dissipates in 10 minutes or so. There's no reason not to drink from the tanks. The plastic may even be safer than what you get with plastic bottles. Most bottled water is just tap water run through basic filters like what you get at Home Depot. The plastic is low grade.Of course, tap water is all local. What I get in Florida is not what people get in Flint, Mi.Jack BrennanSonas, 1998 Catalina 320Tierra Verde, Fl.Sent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: Troy Dunn <troutwarrior at gmail.com> Date: 6/7/21  10:00 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: C320-List at catalina320.com Subject: Re: [C320-list] Potable Water filter and Bilge Pump For the municipal water supply, are you just filling the tanks or does yourboat have a connection for water at the dock.  I ask because if you arejust filling your tanks and want to filter the water from the dock supplythere is a filter you can buy to attach to the hose that does a good job offiltering potable water that just tastes bad.   It's basically just acharcoal filter.   Works reasonably well from what I hear.   We don’t needone so I can’t comment beyond knowing that is what other folks have donefor that issue.  Folks also install under cabinet filters in the galleywhich is a bit more involved and probably not necessary unless using thehose thing isn’t an option for you.  One caveat, we don’t drink for thetap.  All our water for drinking and cooking comes aboard as provisions.It sounds like a pain but really isn’t and freezing two or three gallonshelps relieve the load on the fridge at least for the first three or fourdays.As for the bilge pump.  Yep..it makes quite a racket when running dry andjust a tad less noise when it’s actually pumping.   The float switch in thebilge can get stuck if there is crud and or other boat bits and bobs thathave found their way to the bilge stuck in there.   Reach into the bilgeand flip the float completely open and clean out anything you find there.Give the bilge a seriously good cleaning and see if that solves theproblem.   If that doesn’t solve the problem then it’s an electricalproblem with the switch that should be easy to troubleshoot.Troy DunnHull #514