Steve, While cruising, we usually take showers, although quick ones every day. Our 32 came with shower installed with sump pickup under grate. We also carry two five gallon sun showers while cruising. They work great for ferrying water back to boat and also when we haven't run the engine for awhile, and hot water tank is lukewarm, I take the sun shower and hoist it up on pole lift, then run nozzle into head's hatch. I actually prefer this method for then I don't have to use one hand to hold shower nozzle in head while trying to soap up at same time. And I also agree with others that this is a great way to keep the head clean.
Here's a funny story. My wife and I were out for a ten day cruise, and of course when we depart, water tank is full, hot water heater carries five gallons too, and two sun showers. Now when cruising you are always going into the dock if you are at a certain island or harbor, right? So what I have learned to do is always keep one sun shower empty in dink ready to fill up when ashore. So I fill up the sun shower a couple of times over the first couple of days, then the third or fourth day I fill it up again, and before I put it into the main tank, I think, wait a minute, what if the main tank is already full ? If I put it in when full, it just overflows into the bilge. So I check the main tank (or I should say, only tank), and sure enough, it's topped up. So I have learned that even while cruising and taking showers every night we aren't going thru that much water every day. Tom Anderson C&C 32 Nonpareil Marblehead, MA Message: 2 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:59:33 -0400 From: Robert Abbott <robertabb...@eastlink.ca> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Stus-List Landfall 38 - cruising & showering Message-ID: <530ba4a5.8020...@eastlink.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Steve: We have a shower in the head on our C&C 32.....shower water is pumped overboard from the sump under the wooden grate in the head. Shower water does not go into the bilge. While there is not an abundance of space, there is enough to stand up and/or sit down to run fresh water over your body....and isn't that was counts? Rob Abbott AZURA C&C 32 - 84 Halifax, N.S. > On 2014/02/24 3:31 PM, Stevan Plavsa wrote: > Thanks for your input Wally. Having never taken a shower on a boat I > always assumed that the head/shower combo would leave a big mess. I > know that at home one of my least favourite chores is scrubbing the > bathtub. Doesn't the whole head get all soap scummy? > > There is certainly a case to be made for storage. > > Steve > Suhana, C&C 32 > Toronto ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:03:33 -0400 From: "dwight" <dwight...@gmail.com> To: <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List Landfall 38 - cruising & showering Message-ID: <7560B9BC31344C158771EABAF1BFD0CF@your4dacd0ea75> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On my 35 MKII 2 of us shower every day for 5 days and then we need to get more water. I have not fitted any extra water tanks
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