Rick Beddoe wrote:

>Minnesota Winter took a swing at my water heater and connected to the tune of a crack right down the center of the tank. I could have sworn I used enough anti-freeze. But I can't be sure.
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FWIW, I drain our heater's tank completely, by-pass the plumbing with a
short bit of hose whose OD magically happens to be the regular hoses'
ID, clamp the rascal in place (the odd air leak here has driven me nuts
while running pink pop through the plumbing), and life is good. While
we don't ...ah... enjoy? winters as brisk as yours (thank goodness!!!),
we do get hard freezes and "so far, so good".

>Now I am in the market for a hot water heater. I have looked at http://www.eemax.com/marine.htm and this seems promising. At the moment, we do not need hot water anywhere except when we're in harbor. So, we have 120v at our disposal. Possibly in the future I will consider an engine driven hot water heater. However, my plans are to find naturally occurring hot water (or at least caribbean warm).[...]
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This looks like an adaptation of a flash heater for home use.
Conceptually, I guess it works and all that but... eh, I'm not lovin' it
because, as you note, there's no hot water away from the dock. Wives
tend to get cranky about cold showers and washing up in cold water. At
least mine does and, for that matter, so does her husband. [grin]

Rick Emerson
S/V One With The Wind, Baba 35


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Received on Tue May 31 04:13:53 2005