Plastic sliders for sink

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Planning to put a sliding sink into a 30 footer but also want a shower (or, rather, crew demands a shower). Something like this:

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Rather than wood, I'd like some plastic for the sliders so that they don't go mouldy and black (the sink top will be glassed plywood). What should I be looking at?
 
Looks like a Konsort. Mine had aluminium U track runners. The sliding sink was more hassle than it was worth. Pulling it out the drain hose would get caught and by the time you had it in place and working it was quicker and less hassle to use the main sink for washing. We removed ours and kept hand gel in the loo for the usual.
 
neilf39 said:
Looks like a Konsort. Mine had aluminium U track runners. The sliding sink was more hassle than it was worth. Pulling it out the drain hose would get caught and by the time you had it in place and working it was quicker and less hassle to use the main sink for washing. We removed ours and kept hand gel in the loo for the usual.
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Very useful. Didn't really think of negatives. Will explore whether there might be space for a fixed sink.
 
dgadee said:
Planning to put a sliding sink into a 30 footer but also want a shower (or, rather, crew demands a shower). Something like this:

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Rather than wood, I'd like some plastic for the sliders so that they don't go mouldy and black (the sink top will be glassed plywood). What should I be looking at?
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That's a very neat and practical installation, something I would like to have in my Twister.

Have you any more photos or a link please?
 
Poignard said:
That's a very neat and practical installation, something I would like to have in my Twister.

Have you any more photos or a link please?
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Sorry, no more pics, and not sure where that came from (is a reverse image search possible?) There are very few images out there with sliding sinks I found. And very little discussion of their benefits/problems which is why Neil39's comment was useful to me.
 
I've helped someone fix something along those lines on a 30-footer. The wood sliders were damaged and black from mould. I think there are better designs then other's but the one in question was a pain. The pipes were always in the way. I'm sure there's got to be a different way to install the pipe work and make it usable. I was not too impressed and indeed the sink is what I used to wash my hands.
 
I seem to remember that there was some suggestions in pbo a few years back in the sketchbook by Dick Everitt about basins, etc. Also in these forums (liveaboard?) there was quite a discussion about showers on board. I seem to remember a general consensus, that on boats less than 35ft, heads were too small for showers and took to much drying out. I did have a shower in the heads of my cat and got rid of it partially over the 'drying out' after use.

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Boathook said:
I seem to remember that there was some suggestions in pbo a few years back in the sketchbook by Dick Everitt about basins, etc. Also in these forums (liveaboard?) there was quite a discussion about showers on board. I seem to remember a general consensus, that on boats less than 35ft, heads were too small for showers and took to much drying out. I did have a shower in the heads of my cat and got rid of it partially over the 'drying out' after use.

Daft question about showers on yachts - just added
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I have that book (one of a series). I'll look it up and see what is suggested.

Regarding a shower, I wouldn't dream of having one on my 28 foot Twister, a basin and flannel is perfectly adequate. But I do have room for a small slide-out basin in the heads compartment and that would be an improvement, although certainly not a necessity. Without a shower spraying water around and creating a damp atmosphere I don't see why there should be any mould on the runners.

But, as Captain Josselyn said in “Down Easter Captain”:

“There are so many pleasant things about the sea life that one can put up with some discomforts."​
 
It's no wonder women aren't so keen on cruising with you manly types telling them to make do with a flannel. If I suggested that I can imagine the whingeing!
 
Chasmood strip has been used for donkey's years for sliding glass doors, so may be what you want. One can also get wheels to fit
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Other than that have a fixed sink & sit her in it. Much more fun when you drop the soap ;)

In Ostend, one hot day, I was rafted on the main road side opposite the RNSYC, a lovely lady on the boat rafted to me, stripped off & washed in the cockpit, with the deck shower. Obviously I did not look. :giggle:.
 
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dgadee said:
It's no wonder women aren't so keen on cruising with you manly types telling them to make do with a flannel. If I suggested that I can imagine the whingeing!
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Remind your wife that Florence Nightingale told her nurses that a woman can keep herself clean with a pint of water a day! :D
 
We have a pull out basin in the heads on our Snapdragon - no room for a fixed one. It works well, but you need to calculate the length of water supply and drain hoses carefully so they can move with the basin. The more flexible the better, too. Ours used to drain into the loo, but our new one wouldn't allow that, so it now goes to a seacock.
 
I would just have a short stub of hose on the drain and let the waste water run straight into the lavatory pan from where it would be pumped out.
 
With a shower one needs to make sure that one is going to have an adequate supply of hot water & that the freshwater tanks have sufficient capacity. If in a marina one can easily fill up, but then a marina shower may be the better option anyway. If on a mooring it may mean ferrying water to the boat or risk running out sooner than expected. Also to get that hot water it may mean running the engine first. Not a problem to many, but a nuisance if on a quiet mooring for a couple of days. Or parked up that muddy creek that so many sailors seem to love :cool:
 
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