Posted by Lola Jackson (lolaltd@…>)
Ok, new question…I need to buy a water pressure controller?.Did anyone buy one? Which one?.for the shore hose to attach to my boat opening. I am told by some, I need to turn off the water on the shore post or the pipes can burst in the boat…Any truth to that? If I have the water pressure turned off in the boat…won’t that be enough when I leave? I don’ t like filling my water by hand.Thank you,Lola F30
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Posted by george huffman (thatboatguy2@…>)
Hi Lola,Strictly my opinion but I never ever leave a hose hooked up to the boat. I don’t even like to leave one coming over onto the boat. Having said that. You can buy a pressure regulator in the R/V section at walmart that would work fine. GeorgeLola Jackson <lolaltd@…> wrote: Ok, new question…I need to buy a water pressure controller?.Did anyone buy one? Which one?.for the shore hose to attach to my boat opening. I am told by some, I need to turn off the water on the shore
post or the pipes can burst in the boat…Any truth to that? If I have the water pressure turned off in the boat…won’t that be enough when I leave? I don’ t like filling my water by hand.Thank you,Lola F30 Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
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Posted by katorpus (jrb@…>)
Look at it like this Lola
If the pipe bursts inside the boat, you’ll be filling it with water
at the rate of about 8 gallons per minute…480 gallons per hour.
If this continues for a mere 4 hours (dinner and a movie?), at 7.8
lbs per gallon (fresh water), then you’ll have added 15,000 lbs of
water to your boat, less whatever the bilge pump is capable of
removing before it quits.
Do you see where this is going? If you don’t want to return
(following a daytrip somewhere) to find your art supplies floating
around in the marina (and only a mast sticking up in your slip), then
figure out a way to prevent this from happening.
The simplest way is to turn OFF the water at the dock when you’re
gone. You can get more creative, and put a 1/4 ball valve on the end
of the hose BEFORE it connects to your pressure regulator/water
inlet, and then just give it a flip on your way off the boat (or if
you’re a really heavy sleeper, before going to bed at night).
This latter approach will greatly shorten the life of your hose,
since it will be under constant pressure from the supply side, but if
it bursts, the worst that will happen is a wet cockpit and a bunch of
wasted water.
— In FreedomOwnersGroup@yahoogroups.com, Lola Jackson <lolaltd@…>
wrote:
Ok, new question…I need to buy a water pressure controller?.Did
anyone buy one? Which one?.for the shore hose to attach to my boat
opening. I am told by some, I need to turn off the water on the
shore post or the pipes can burst in the boat…Any truth to that?
If I have the water pressure turned off in the boat…won’t that be
enough when I leave? I don’ t like filling my water by hand.Thank you,
Lola F30
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Posted by katorpus (jrb@…>)
Below…I meant to say “1/4 turn ball valve”
Of course, you could also put this on the supply side at the dock
BEFORE any hose and eliminate the hose-bursting problem. It’s a lot
easier to shut the water off this way than to crank the hose bibb
valve open and shut. I have them on all my household outside faucets
upstream of the hose bibb…when removing the hose or leaving it off
for more than a few minutes, I just use this as the shutoff, then use
the hose bibb to control the volume of water going into the hose.
The beauty of this is that the seats in the ball valve hold up a lot
better to the static pressure of the city water than the washers in
the hose bibb, and the latter need replacement/repair a lot less
often.
— In FreedomOwnersGroup@yahoogroups.com, “katorpus” <jrb@…> wrote:
Look at it like this Lola
If the pipe bursts inside the boat, you’ll be filling it with water
at the rate of about 8 gallons per minute…480 gallons per hour.If this continues for a mere 4 hours (dinner and a movie?), at 7.8
lbs per gallon (fresh water), then you’ll have added 15,000 lbs of
water to your boat, less whatever the bilge pump is capable of
removing before it quits.Do you see where this is going? If you don’t want to return
(following a daytrip somewhere) to find your art supplies floating
around in the marina (and only a mast sticking up in your slip),
then
figure out a way to prevent this from happening.The simplest way is to turn OFF the water at the dock when you’re
gone. You can get more creative, and put a 1/4 ball valve on the
end
of the hose BEFORE it connects to your pressure regulator/water
inlet, and then just give it a flip on your way off the boat (or if
you’re a really heavy sleeper, before going to bed at night).This latter approach will greatly shorten the life of your hose,
since it will be under constant pressure from the supply side, but
if
it bursts, the worst that will happen is a wet cockpit and a bunch
of
wasted water.— In FreedomOwnersGroup@yahoogroups.com, Lola Jackson <lolaltd@>
wrote:Ok, new question…I need to buy a water pressure controller?.Did
anyone buy one? Which one?.for the shore hose to attach to my boat
opening. I am told by some, I need to turn off the water on the
shore post or the pipes can burst in the boat…Any truth to that?
If I have the water pressure turned off in the boat…won’t that be
enough when I leave? I don’ t like filling my water by hand.Thank
you,
Lola F30
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Posted by sgaber@…> (sgaber@…>)
Water hook-ups to docks sink lots of boats. If you belong to Boat US and/or
have boatUS marine insurance, you can get theor magazine that shows photos of
claims. Some of them were of boats sunk at the docks by failed hose connections,
faulty through-hulls, head valves left open, all kinds of things peole toook for
granted when Murphy struck.
Steve Gaber
Sanderling, 1967 C-31 #77
Oldsmar, FL
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- Lola Jackson <lolaltd@…> wrote:
Ok, new question…I need to buy a water pressure controller?.Did anyone buy
one? Which one?.for the shore hose to attach to my boat opening. I am told by
some, I need to turn off the water on the shore post or the pipes can burst in
the boat…Any truth to that? If I have the water pressure turned off in the
boat…won’t that be enough when I leave? I don’ t like filling my water by
hand.Thank you,
Lola F30
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Posted by Lola Jackson (lolaltd@…>)
OK I’m convinced… just keep filling the tank by hand.Lola F30sgaber@… wrote: Water hook-ups to docks sink lots of boats. If you belong to Boat US and/or have boatUS marine insurance, you can get theor magazine that shows photos of claims. Some of them were of boats sunk at the docks by failed hose connections, faulty through-hulls, head valves left open, all kinds of things peole toook for granted when Murphy struck. Steve Gaber Sanderling, 1967 C-31 #77 Oldsmar, FL - Lola Jackson <lolaltd@yahoo.com> wrote: > Ok, new question…I need to buy a water pressure controller?.Did anyone buy one? Which one?.for the shore hose to attach to my boat opening. I am told by some, I need to turn off the water on the shore post or the pipes can burst in the boat…Any truth to that? If I have the water pressure turned off in the boat…won’t that be enough when I leave? I don’ t like filling my water by hand.Thank you, > Lola F30 > > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. –
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Posted by sgaber@…> (sgaber@…>)
You don’t need to fill the tank by hand. Just turn off the fawcet on the dock.
and keep the head and engine seacocks closed when they’re not needed. And don’t
forget to disconnect the hose before you sail away from the dock.
Steve Gaber
Sanderling, 1967 C-31 #77
Oldsmar, FL
---- Lola Jackson <lolaltd@…> wrote:
OK I’m convinced… just keep filling the tank by hand.
Lola F30
sgaber@… wrote: Water hook-ups to
docks sink lots of boats. If you belong to Boat US and/or have boatUS marine
insurance, you can get theor magazine that shows photos of claims. Some of them
were of boats sunk at the docks by failed hose connections, faulty
through-hulls, head valves left open, all kinds of things peole toook for
granted when Murphy struck.Steve Gaber
Sanderling, 1967 C-31 #77
Oldsmar, FL
- Lola Jackson <lolaltd@…> wrote:
Ok, new question…I need to buy a water pressure controller?.Did anyone
buy one? Which one?.for the shore hose to attach to my boat opening. I am told
by some, I need to turn off the water on the shore post or the pipes can burst
in the boat…Any truth to that? If I have the water pressure turned off in the
boat…won’t that be enough when I leave? I don’ t like filling my water by
hand.Thank you,
Lola F30
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