Fairline Targa 47 Water Filter

[Illusion]

Recently discovered that our boat has a fresh water filter (one of those Whale Aqua Sourse Clear Filter types) that on a friends boat was located in trunking on the port side of the engine room above the port fuel tank. These Filters should be changed about once a year otherwise they start to break up and you start to get black bits in your water.
Ours hasn't been changed in 3 seasons now of ownership and we've noticed a few bits appearing in the aft cabin heads when it's flushed.
However having checked, our filter isn't located in the same place as on our friends boat, therefore does anyone know where else Fairline may have fitted these on the T47 or have any other owners changed theirs and it's been located in a different place?

Thanks

Phil

 

[bluetooth]

Phil
How do you know you have one ? Is it just because you have "black bits" in water ?
If you have a filter you should either have a triflow tap or separate spout for the filtered water.
I would imagine they were all retrofit upgrades (I have just put one in my T40) so they could be anywhere in the water line but I would imagine it would be just plumbed for the kitchen sink rather than whole boat. I would therefore start under the sink maybe in a corner of a cupboard or tucked up under the worktop that you cant see. Mine is a very small Seagull 4 unit just fatter than a can of coke.
Unless the black bits are from somewhere else in the system or got in via the filler; ? filler gasket degrading !
Hope this helps

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Recently discovered that our boat has a fresh water filter (one of those Whale Aqua Sourse Clear Filter types) that on a friends boat was located in trunking on the port side of the engine room above the port fuel tank. These Filters should be changed about once a year otherwise they start to break up and you start to get black bits in your water.
Ours hasn't been changed in 3 seasons now of ownership and we've noticed a few bits appearing in the aft cabin heads when it's flushed.
However having checked, our filter isn't located in the same place as on our friends boat, therefore does anyone know where else Fairline may have fitted these on the T47 or have any other owners changed theirs and it's been located in a different place?

Thanks

Phil

Evening chap

If you think that your entire domestic water supply is filtered, wouldn't it follow that the filter itself is located fairly early on in the domestic water plumbing? I'm afraid I've got no specific knowledge on the T47, but I'd be starting at the tank and also at the pump/accumulator, before the water pipework splits to cabins/galley/bathing platform shower etc. Is your aft cabin heads the nearest one to the pump by any chance?

 

[admillington]

Recently discovered that our boat has a fresh water filter (one of those Whale Aqua Sourse Clear Filter types) that on a friends boat was located in trunking on the port side of the engine room above the port fuel tank. These Filters should be changed about once a year otherwise they start to break up and you start to get black bits in your water.
Ours hasn't been changed in 3 seasons now of ownership and we've noticed a few bits appearing in the aft cabin heads when it's flushed.
However having checked, our filter isn't located in the same place as on our friends boat, therefore does anyone know where else Fairline may have fitted these on the T47 or have any other owners changed theirs and it's been located in a different place?

Thanks

Phil

On my past Squadrons the Whale Filter was connected only to the Ice Maker supply and not the general water supply.

-Andrew

 

[CharlieAlpha]

Behind and only feeds the ice-maker on my T44

 

[Illusion]

Evening chap

If you think that your entire domestic water supply is filtered, wouldn't it follow that the filter itself is located fairly early on in the domestic water plumbing? I'm afraid I've got no specific knowledge on the T47, but I'd be starting at the tank and also at the pump/accumulator, before the water pipework splits to cabins/galley/bathing platform shower etc. Is your aft cabin heads the nearest one to the pump by any chance?

Hi,

Yes that was my assumption to and I haven't yet starting pulling up things to really dig in deeper, but following a call to Fairline that I need to make, that will probably be the next thing. Like you I assume it would be early on. There is one o the pump all part of the same unit. However I'm now thinking as we don't have an ice maker on our boat and our friends do, the filter on theirs would just be to serve specifically the ice maker?

 

[Illusion]

On my past Squadrons the Whale Filter was connected only to the Ice Maker supply and not the general water supply.

-Andrew

Thanks Andrew that would make sense as we don't have an ice maker and our friend do.

 

[Illusion]

Behind and only feeds the ice-maker on my T44

Right OK so this makes sense, however other than the clear filter by the pump is there any other filter that would be on the fresh water system? If it needs changing then it could be causing some black bits to get into the flush of the aft cabin toilet. I must stress this isn't a huge amount of bits in the water and normally runs clear again after a few flushes.

 

[TK Blue MAX]

Possibly more likely to be parts from the toilet flush system if only on back cabin toilet????

 

[Portofino]

Those "black " bits could be clusters of microorganisms like bacteria .-Bugs -
Contamination of the aft cabin clean end of the toilet supply by the black water .
With out a pic of bowl or a 3D plumbing schematic -- the aft cabin when the boat is on the plane , bow high -gravity will take liquids to the stern ,so with a fullish ( recently used bowl ) depending on the position of the water in jet ,and the other plumbing -bugs may have got in .

Unlike a house cistern there no type 1 air gap In most boats .There for in theory it's physically possible to x contaminate the whole system .Nice !

Do you regularly dose the water tank with a bug killer ?
Well that's my 0.02 p worth

 

[jfm]

Yup, in my experience also those filters are only for the icemaker. I wouldn't want them in the main water supply because they throttle the flow too much

Portofino's contamination theory is extremely unlikely imho. Especially if your whole family isn't puking up!