Meaco Junior Stability

[Halo]

I am in the market for a de humidifier. The Meaco Junior is favourite but I am not sure about its stability if the boat is rocking whilst on the mooring. The feet look small and the top is larger than the bottom. Can anyone comment from experience please ?

 

[Momac]

I agree it looks top heavy but my dd8Lhas not fallen over while in use with the boat on a pontoon berth.
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[Steve_N]

I've screwed mine down whilst ashore in the boatyard and would do so if using it on a mooring

 

[neil1967]

Used to put my dd8l junior on top of a galley work surface to get the height to drain better into the bilge, never a problem. Berthed on a finger pontoon in a marina. I assume you don't mean a swinging mooring?

 

[RupertW]

I strap mine on the galley top to a strut that goes from kitchen surface to ceiling to hold the stays. However when we go sailing I put on the floor of a cabin and so far (even after hours of beating in lumpy seas sometimes) it is always upright at the end.

Great piece of kit over the last 4 years.

 

[ditchcrawler]

My Meaco sits on a board in the galley sink so it can drain into the sink through a hole in the board. The board is a round chopping breadboard which fits tightly in the sink.
On the board I have a piece of that non slip rubber stuff. It has sat like that for the last 3 winters, admittedly on a pontoon mooring, but it was a bit rough the one winter with lots of movement, and there have been no problems.

 

[maby]

I think the answer is that it depends very much on the location of your mooring. We bought our first Meaco Junior many years ago when we were in a locked marina some way inland from the coast up a river estuary. We left it running most of the winter sitting on the galley work top and had no problems at all. Since then, we have moved to less sheltered marinas and are currently in Gosport. I would be very reluctant to leave the dehumidifier not strapped down without anyone aboard now - the boat can skip around enough to send heavy items flying and I would be worried about it coming off and doing damage. And that is on a 42 foot sailing boat, not some little thing.

I certainly would not go sailing without packing it away in a locker well padded - we did that through carelessness on our first boat and suffered a serious bruise to one of the wooden panels as a result.

Fortunately, we now spend most of our time aboard and hence can keep an eye on it. It normally stands on the floor, collecting water into its tank which we empty regularly.