The Cooking Fat might need a new home.

[Stingo]

On getting back from the beach bar this evening, the distinct sound of the water pump pumping could be heard. My water tanks are now empty and, besides the Cooking Fat chasing shadows, I have no idea how the pump was switched on?

Getting fresh water here is a major challenge - 50 litres per dinghy ride x 4 trips x €4 per 50 litres, which must be paid with folding stuff and there's no ATM on the island.

Grrrrr (but in banned language).

 

[Trident]

It can depend on the type of tap - we lost an entire tankful in rough weather on our first night of our first Biscay crossing !! We had one of those lever type taps in the head and rocking waves opened it up and of course we couldn't hear the pump whilst sailing in rough seas. Now we just turn off the 12v to the pump when we leave the boat or have heavy weather; just a flip switch on the panel so easy to do

Perhaps you should do the same and keep the lovely Cooking Fat

 

[Stingo]

I've now removed the fuse to the pump, which I never used - the foot pump is more than adequate.

The arse-licking, manipulative Cooking Fat just gave me a very loving chin-rub, and being a sucker for cats, all is now forgiven.

Geez, I am so weak

 

[Stingo]

So innocent. But guilty as charged.

 

[greeny]

Getting its own back for you going out on your own on the p*** and leaving it behind.

 

[jdc]

My crew left the aft-heads tap running when half way to Brazil and emptied our tanks over night. To show how cross I was, I married her...

 

[Bajansailor]

My crew left the aft-heads tap running when half way to Brazil and emptied our tanks over night. To show how cross I was, I married her...

I hope that you had a reserve supply in jerry cans?

And that you and your crew are still happily married now.

 

[dansaskip]

Just shows you should never have your water supply by an electric pump - as Stingo says a foot pump is more than adequate and is also acts as a sort of "rationer" that doesn't seem to be a proper word but perhaps it should be? that slows or stops (crew?) using too much water.

 

[greeny]

Took a friend sailing for a few days. He hung his dressing gown???? on the shower bracket. Went sailing and dressing gown swinging against the shower tap turned the water on. Didn't hear the pump because of wind and wave noise up top. "Help we're sinking" was the cry from his wife down below. Floorboards were floating on the contents of the water tanks. Went below and could hear what I thought was the bilge pump that was manual at the time, then realized that it was the domestic water pump running dry. I'll leave the rest of the conversations to your imagination

 

[jdc]

I hope that you had a reserve supply in jerry cans?

Water maker! And yes, thank you.

 

[newtothis]

with a suitable evaporation device set up on board, you should be able to make emergency water by... making water. Recycling in its purest form.

 

[dunedin]

Just shows you should never have your water supply by an electric pump - as Stingo says a foot pump is more than adequate and is also acts as a sort of "rationer" that doesn't seem to be a proper word but perhaps it should be? that slows or stops (crew?) using too much water.

No. All it requires is an on / off switch on the panel for the pump. No idea why Stingo needed to remove a fuse to switch off.

 

[Stingo]

.... No idea why Stingo needed to remove a fuse to switch off.

Try reading the last sentence of the first paragraph in #1

 

[dunedin]

Try reading the last sentence of the first paragraph in #1

Normally by knocking a tap lever.
Surely the panel switch is not so loose that it can be knocked on by a cat. Or perhaps put tape over the switch (as we had to do to stop humans switching off the bilge pump).

 

[Stingo]

Normally by knocking a tap lever.
Surely the panel switch is not so loose that it can be knocked on by a cat. Or perhaps put tape over the switch (as we had to do to stop humans switching off the bilge pump).

Nah. It's much easier to remove the fuse.

 

[Baggywrinkle]

On getting back from the beach bar this evening, the distinct sound of the water pump pumping could be heard. My water tanks are now empty and, besides the Cooking Fat chasing shadows, I have no idea how the pump was switched on?

Getting fresh water here is a major challenge - 50 litres per dinghy ride x 4 trips x €4 per 50 litres, which must be paid with folding stuff and there's no ATM on the island.

Grrrrr (but in banned language).

Valuable lesson learned .... your boat is not cat proof ..... the little ba$tards can cause absolute chaos - this year mine cancelled meetings, sent garbled E-Mails, shut down my PC, .... and the piece-de-résistance - managed to turn conditional formatting on for a tab in an excel spread sheet, he turned the font green when a cell contained a specific name. Took me 20 mins to work out what he had done and reverse it. And all by casually walking across my keyboard.

 

[dunedin]

Nah. It's much easier to remove the fuse.

Must be tricky having a daily hot shower on board using only a foot pump

 

[Stingo]

Must be tricky having a daily hot shower on board using only a foot pump

What makes you think my wreck has a shower, never mind hot water?

I have two of those plastic solar showers and I shower, naked, in the cockpit.

Just get used to it, removing the fuse IS the simplest solution. Now, please stop imagining what facilities my wreck might or might not have. Move on.... ffs.

 

[Boathook]

What makes you think my wreck has a shower, never mind hot water?

I have two of those plastic solar showers and I shower, naked, in the cockpit.

Just get used to it, removing the fuse IS the simplest solution. Now, please stop imagining what facilities my wreck might or might not have. Move on.... ffs.

I feel sorry for your neighbours when you shower in the cockpit !

 

[Stingo]

Ref showering naked in the cockpit, a few weeks ago, a boat anchored about 100 metres away shouted across "Do you mind, we have children aboard"
The ever sympathetic Stingo shouted back "I feel for you. You have my sympathy".