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[Zing]

One way to heat water would be to run it over the back of your PV panel through a chamber/bladder. Panels do get hot and it can't be too hard to pump it from there to your tank using small bore insulated hose and little circulation pump. There's a bonus too, that solar panels run quite a bit better when cooled.

 

[Neeves]

The OP has a moderate sized motorboat, that's trailerable. He keeps it on the East coat of the Uk. He mostly weekends, locally. His boat is fitted with 2 moderate sized domestic batteries. If he still has the Aquador 26 it has a large Volvo inboard diesel and the boat was fitted with a domestic water system as standard, hot water was an option and i'm not sure if the option was fitted. Hi avatar is of a different boat, so he may have changed to an outboard powered, small motorboat.

All of that is easily discovered and i've already mentioned most of it, more than once, but you choose to skip over it.

Do you really think, if the boat does not have an existing hot water system, that fitting a propane hot water system to a 26ft motorboat is a feasible option ?



Same question, as above.



Still the same question.



More things that are not relevant to the original question. No one is suggestion not taking a shower long term, but if the OP is weekending he can have a shower the day he goes and one the day he comes back, if having hot water onboard is impossible. But then again, no one is saying it's impossible, as i said earlier, at the worst, a strip wash at the end of day one, with a sink of hot water provided by the kettle would suffice for most sensible people.

You just keep banging on about your long tern cruiser views. Not exactly the same as East coast UK weekend sailing, is it ?

As for "offering experiences from a commercial service" i don't fit plumbing systems, i'm an electrician. I do spend enough time around boats to know that systems suitable, or indeed desirable/essential, on blue water cruising yachts don't necessarily scale down to 26ft coastal motorboats based in the UK.

When someone comes along who wants to fit a blue water cruising yacht out with a domestic hot water system, perhaps even heated at times by spare solar energy, i'm sure you and the other blu water cruisers will be able to share how their systems work and it will be of great help to those who are enquiring. In the meantime, no matter how many times you bring up phantasy grandchildren and young sailing wives you need two showers a day, your systems don't scale for 26ft motorboats.

FYI, my current boat is perfectly able to have a few minor modifications and be classed as a blue water cruiser, she's already spent several years in the Med, or even somewhere a little cooler :Skipper & Delivery Services by Bob Shepton - Home Page

The boat i owned before Rainbow was a 28ft motorboat, with an inboard diesel. This had hot and cold water, shower, cooker, fridge etc and everything needed for UK coastal cruising. So i have personal experience of bot types of boat/requirements/possibilities. The difference seems to be that i can differentiate between to two completely different types of vessel and requirements/possibilities.

Paul,

I have resisted the opportunity to reply.

Jonathan

 

[PaulRainbow]

Paul,

I have resisted the opportunity to reply.

Jonathan

But you haven't.

 

[geem]

But you haven't.

I don't think that counts?

 

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