Freh water shortage and clean boats

[FinesseChris]

Hi all

There's a shortage of water (fresh!) in SE England (and in Spain, Portugal, W France etc). Gardeners are told to take it easy on the sprinklers, car-owners asked to let the grime build a bit.

But go into a marina and you will see, as I did the other day, industrious couples steadily washing their boat, stem to stern, all 40 ft, with a sponge each, a shared bottle of special spray-on goo -- and a running hose.

I know the water shortage is the fault of the monopoly utility companies/George Bush/Mrs Thatcher/sunspots/unearthly powers beyond our ken. But due to a very dry winter it is real.

How much water does a half-inch hose emit in half an hour?

How clean do boats have to be?

Can we re-invent the bucket?

Chris

 

[Sans Bateau]

Yeh! I've noticed that as well!

In Dielette earlier this year, boat arrives from Guernsey, two people spend hours spraying water over it to get it looking 'showroom'. Next day there off again. I'll have fiver they did the same next marina.

In our own marina, back here, gallons of water are poured over boats, plus a lot straight into the sea, between rinsing.

Is a bit of salt that harmfull? Will the next shower of rain not do the same job as the hose?

 

[Windfall]

Watched a couple happily wash off their boat on Sat. in Ryde...right by the sign that said please do not use fresh water to wash down your boat

Still I guess they didn't have to pay for it! Leave that one to the Isle of Wight rateable resident

 

[Talbot]

I have always believed in washing my windows (so I can see out) and that there would soon be enough rain to wash the rest!

 

[snowleopard]

In the caribbean every marina berth has a water meter. There's not much hosing of decks out there!

I think here there's a view here that we pay so much for marinas that we want to get our money's worth.

 

[Sans Bateau]

Trouble is, the marinas dont own the natural resource that is in danger, water that is. The culprits are taking out on the planet.

 

[Judders]

How feasible would it be to have two water systems in our marinas. Drinking water and scrubbing water?

 

[Sans Bateau]

Where would the scrubbing water come from?

 

[Judders]

Hmm, so I'm in a Marina and I need a cheap source of dirty water....

Not sure. Tricky one... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Seriously, I'm not sure. If people want to avoid salt water in a salt water marina then I'm sure that unclean water is fairly easy to come accross if you bore. When I wewre a lad most rugby clubs, village halls and sailing clubs had taps you could drink from and taps you couldn't.

 

[Sans Bateau]

/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gifSorry I missunderstood you, I assumed one wouldnt want to wash ones boat with water that the bloke in the next berth has just flushed through his Jabsco!!!

 

[Judders]

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/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gifSorry I missunderstood you, I assumed one wouldnt want to wash ones boat with water that the bloke in the next berth has just flushed through his Jabsco!!!

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Er, No. Certainly not. Sadly I can't see marina owners putting the dogh up to install all the plumbing unless they're forced too. On some of the boats I've used there is a pumb that attaches to a hose for just this purpose. It'll take the water from under the hull for scrubbing down.