jimi
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.. if after the recent cold spell you find yourself hunting down an untraceable water leak .. look at the cockpit shower head .. the ice cracked mine and it took me several hours to find cos I'd forgotten it existed!
For those with cockpit showers..
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Martin_J
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Perhaps I should have put out a 'Remember to drain your cockpit shower hose' reminder before the freezing weather started in December... I remembered because the same happened to mine the previous winter.
If you need spares, Penguin Engineering in Hayling Island have a big selection of small shower heads...
Cockpit shower heads shown at the link below, section 26!
http://www.penguineng.com/tapsshowers.html
If you need spares, Penguin Engineering in Hayling Island have a big selection of small shower heads...
Cockpit shower heads shown at the link below, section 26!
http://www.penguineng.com/tapsshowers.html
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ctva
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Happened to me last year.... what a relief when I found out that's all it was!!!!
cawarra
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Yes, a very uselful tip....good post...
I used to work for a large agency on the south coast selling a variety of yacht and power boats. EVERY winter we would have customers shouting and screaming down the phone saying that they had a major leak in their boat and it was obviuously "our fault"..the boat wasnt fit for purpose...that we HAD to get an engineer to the boat immediately.... boat was sinking.....etc etc etc etc etc....
It was very clear in the manuals given out (both from the boat manufacturer and us as a company) that they had to drain the cockpit shower (and a number of other winterising jobs) when very cold weather was due or if they were leaving the boat for a longer period of time and once this pointed out to them, the vast majority of customer went very quiet....sheepishly ordering a new cockpit shower head and hose the following week..
VERY rarely even an apology for the way they spoke to the staff let alone a thank you for helping them....hey ho....guess thats the world we live in....
I used to work for a large agency on the south coast selling a variety of yacht and power boats. EVERY winter we would have customers shouting and screaming down the phone saying that they had a major leak in their boat and it was obviuously "our fault"..the boat wasnt fit for purpose...that we HAD to get an engineer to the boat immediately.... boat was sinking.....etc etc etc etc etc....
It was very clear in the manuals given out (both from the boat manufacturer and us as a company) that they had to drain the cockpit shower (and a number of other winterising jobs) when very cold weather was due or if they were leaving the boat for a longer period of time and once this pointed out to them, the vast majority of customer went very quiet....sheepishly ordering a new cockpit shower head and hose the following week..
VERY rarely even an apology for the way they spoke to the staff let alone a thank you for helping them....hey ho....guess thats the world we live in....
WF36
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Has happened to us for the last 3 years! doh!
emandvee44
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Cockpit showers
We were caught too last Winter. Could not work out why the pressure pump kept cutting in. Took ages to trace the leak which was a hairline fracture in the plastic shaft of the stern shower head. Ordered a replacement, but meanwhile repaired the broken one with emergency tape - still works.
Michael.
We were caught too last Winter. Could not work out why the pressure pump kept cutting in. Took ages to trace the leak which was a hairline fracture in the plastic shaft of the stern shower head. Ordered a replacement, but meanwhile repaired the broken one with emergency tape - still works.
Michael.
SHUG
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I drained it and it still froze in a horizontal run of piping. I think you have to blow the water out of the system to be sure. Any suggestions as to how to do this????
Searush
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I get under the sprayhood when we get showers in the cockpit. 
Sooner or later, the sun will come out again.
But I wouldn't take a leak in the cockpit, I hang on to the leeward shrouds for that.
Sooner or later, the sun will come out again.But I wouldn't take a leak in the cockpit, I hang on to the leeward shrouds for that.
Angele
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There was a slow leak in my boat when I took delivery in 2005, because of a cracked transom shower head. Replaced under warranty. It is amazing how much water can empty out of such a small hole over the course of the weekend.
Each year since then I have been religiously unscrewing the shower head as part of my decommissioning routine. Unfortunately, this year didn't get round to it in time. Result of the cold spell before Christmas: second cracked shower head.
Thanks to Martin_J for posting the link to Penguin Engineering Limited. I think mine is one of the ones pictured.
Each year since then I have been religiously unscrewing the shower head as part of my decommissioning routine. Unfortunately, this year didn't get round to it in time. Result of the cold spell before Christmas: second cracked shower head.
Thanks to Martin_J for posting the link to Penguin Engineering Limited. I think mine is one of the ones pictured.
mlthomas
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I thought to check it the shower at the weekend, no cracks like last year as it had 'frozen off ' completely. Shower head in my hand and pipe under the after locker. Luckily no leaks though.
Next year.....
