Hiw do you keep drinking water?

Straight from the tap. It's topped up regularly and comes straight from the hose at Molesey Lock. I let it run for a minute first.
It's a fibre glass tank that is probably as old as the boat(over 40 years old). I had to take it out to repair a leak and when I looked inside was surprised at how clean it was. I've no idea why, but tea tastes better on the boat.

I don't understand the squeamish approach to water in a boat tank, especially on the river. If you clean your teeth with it you may as well drink it.
 
Straight out of the boat's tank and into a glass.

I refill the tank from the taps on marina pontoons in France and the UK. Why should it not be safe to drink it? :confused:
 
Daft really but -
For drinking water, ice cubes for One's G&T doncha know, I fitted a silver ceramic filter tap when I built the boat.
The daft bit is that we clean our teeth with ordinary tap water.

Folks may pour scorn (as they've done above) on why not? - you may take some concern if you'd seen - as I did last season of someone cleaning his boat at Shiplake using the drinking water hydrant hose, trailing the whole length of the hose in the river water. He'd also moved (or left) the boat too close to the pump out for comfort...
 
The tank is flushed and refilled at the beginning of each season, and Aqua tabs are applied to a high strength.

We then use water heavily and refill as regularly as possible, keeping relatively fresh water in the tank, with occasional re-application of Aqua tabs.

Never had a problem using this for brushing teeth, filling filter bottle or making Tea/Coffee and Dogs drinking water (I always taste this by the way...so no Animals were harmed LOL)

Never drink 'Water' per se anyway, but never had any issues.

I notice the water has an initial odour sometimes, so leave the tap running until it's OK. This would be the water remaining in the pipes rather than the main tank.
 
Bottled water for drinking, cooking, tea. my tank is 51 years old! and after you have seen the inside of a pump, even on a 3 year old boat, yuck!
 
Let sleeping dogs lie?

rich said:
Bottled water for drinking, cooking, tea. my tank is 51 years old! and after you have seen the inside of a pump, even on a 3 year old boat, yuck!
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Mine is a mere 48 years old. The tank forms part of the encapsulated keel moulding and is covered in by a metal plate fastened down with many studs/nuts. I can't be bothered to remove all those nuts (and drill out the inevitable broken studs! :() so I have never looked inside during the 18 years I've owned the boat. After what you've said, I dont think I want to! :disgust:
 
16 year old plastic tank which is cleaned with puritabs every spring and we just use water straight from the tank except for the fizzy bottled water I enjoy. We also have airline active charcoal filter which we replace every couple of years and that did make a significant difference to the taste. Not died yet! :)
 
No Regrets said:
The tank is flushed and refilled at the beginning of each season, and Aqua tabs are applied to a high strength.


I notice the water has an initial odour sometimes, so leave the tap running until it's OK. This would be the water remaining in the pipes rather than the main tank.
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Aqua Tabs make the water taste like chlorine and very hard to get rid of the taint.

We use Aqua Sol which comes from the same company but is a liquid. Use it all the time as per every fill with water, no chlorine taste with the addition of the silver/charcoal filter the water is a perfect taste and never a problem with bugs.

http://www.cleantabs.co.uk/aquasol.htm
 
For drinking and cooking we buy a 4 or 5 litre bottle of still water from the supermarket - then refill it from the mains supply. The bottle usually survives several months.

We don't drink from the tank. I did dose the tank with Milton last year as the boat had been standing unused some time before we bought it. I will give the plumbing system a good flush through with fresh water in a few weeks time.
 
Possibly a generational thing. Our strictly observed water regime is adhered to without question by order of the Kaptian.
You put water into the tank..............
You can ONLY use the water in the tank for the following purposes
Flushing the bog
The shower (Every birthday and/or other special occasions)
The washing up
Making tea
Making coffee
Making up fruit squash
Cleaning the boat exterior
Cleaning the boat interior
Washing
Drinking.
All other uses are forbidden for fear of catching something unnameable and dying early before the age of 110.

Buy bottled water...your joking ..what a joke..the advertising industrial machine really do have some people by the bit s. :)
Next time somebody on here whinges about running a boat...ask them if they buy bottled water. :)
 
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I drink from the tap. Add a giant aquatab every refill. It's fine, I'm not I'll.

Sam won't though - she calls it "poison water" and only drinks bottled stuff.

She buys it by the tonne from Costco, so relatively cheap.
 
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