Who ever uses marina loos or showers?

[capnsensible]

Luxury - being above the sea that is...

Simply get an old towel, a tin of Swarfega and man up.

 

[colind3782]

Lucky enough to have a great berth with fantastic showers, toilets and a couple of swimming pools

 

[JumbleDuck]

10gallons/ shower?

That's the generally accepted figure, yes. Nice ones are surprisingly heavy on water.

 

[Heckler]

We use the loo and shower on our boat. Electric flush loo and the shower delivers a good quantity of hot water. We don't skimp on showering either - morning and evening. Using the marina facilities feels too much like camping to me.

You have hit the nail on the head, too much like camping! Agree! Always remember when we had a touring caravan, friends had one and refused to use the shower, didnt want to "spoil" the finish! Using it would devalue it! Go figure!

 

[Heckler]

That's the generally accepted figure, yes. Nice ones are surprisingly heavy on water.

60 galls in the front tank, 40 in the back one. We reckon for the two of us 10 days in all and not being too skimpy with it, plus 5 litres of bottled water every two days for drinking. Tea etc comes out of the filteredank water using a Whale silver and charcoal inline filter.

 

[alant]

That's the generally accepted figure, yes. Nice ones are surprisingly heavy on water.

Thought they were supposed to use less than running a bath.

 

[RichardS]

Thought they were supposed to use less than running a bath.

Much less than a bath .... about 25% of a bath at most.

Richard

 

[Martin&Rene]

We bought a shower head that has a full flow/dribble button on it. So it is a quick wet all over on full flow/press the button to almost stop the flow, without having to change the temperature setting on the taps/ soap/then full flow to rinse. Almost certainly less than 10l.

If you have seen the amount of green mould in the showers at Aedfern, I am not sure that you would want to shower there. It is a pressure washer they need there, not disinfectant. We often wonder where a certain well known public figure who keeps her yacht there showers.

 

[RupertW]

I had a look at the size of our shower sumps and they look about 3 litres capacity. I empty it twice when showering and rinsing the heads so shower is 6 litres each time - very little for what feels like a good shower.

 

[JumbleDuck]

60 galls in the front tank, 40 in the back one. We reckon for the two of us 10 days in all and not being too skimpy with it, plus 5 litres of bottled water every two days for drinking. Tea etc comes out of the filteredank water using a Whale silver and charcoal inline filter.

We carry about 100 litres fore and aft. One tank normally lasts two of us a week to ten days, depending on how many times a day I feel inclined to wash up. No showers.

 

[mjcoon]

I wonder what the capacity was of the solar shower bag that we used to get four persons showers out of...

Mike.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Thought they were supposed to use less than running a bath.

Much less than a bath .... about 25% of a bath at most.

They do generally use less than a bath, but not as much less than people think, probably because the idea that showers use a lot less water became established by the feeble electric showers of the 70s.

A modern 10kW electric shower -which is still pretty puny - can heat around a gallon per minute (assuming 30^oC -> 40^oC and the cheapest Worcester Combi Boiler will do twice that, as will my oil-fired boiler.

The generally accepted average figures are ~80 litres for a bath and ~45 litres for a five-minute shower. It therefore doesn't have to be a particularly indulgent shower to use more than a bathful.

I had a look at the size of our shower sumps and they look about 3 litres capacity. I empty it twice when showering and rinsing the heads so shower is 6 litres each time - very little for what feels like a good shower.

That's about a minute and half's worth from an electric shower and forty seconds' worth of a power shower. I expect it gets the job done, but I prefer to put in my quid and get my full eight minutes.

 

[steveeasy]

We tend to go and stay in marinas specifically to use the good facilities. I might add they are extremely good value for money when you take in to account what is on offer.


Steveeasy

 

[zoidberg]

Vogons....?

 

[Laysula]

Yup we use the marina showers and heads. Ours at Brixham always seem to be spotless. Some of the ones in France that we have come across have been a bit unsavoury to say the least though. Whilst we refurbished the bathroom at home it was usefull to use the marina showers 5 minutes away.

 

[RupertW]

Yup we use the marina showers and heads. Ours at Brixham always seem to be spotless. Some of the ones in France that we have come across have been a bit unsavoury to say the least though. Whilst we refurbished the bathroom at home it was usefull to use the marina showers 5 minutes away.

And this is what perplexes me - why did you not carry on with the 5 minute walk to the marina showers, rather than using your own shower with your soaps and shampoos around you, towels and clothes and no walk?

 

[Sybarite]

I wonder what the capacity was of the solar shower bag that we used to get four persons showers out of...

Mike.

5 gallons. I have one for rinsing off after swims in the sea.

 

[JumbleDuck]

And this is what perplexes me - why did you not carry on with the 5 minute walk to the marina showers, rather than using your own shower with your soaps and shampoos around you, towels and clothes and no walk?

I would do that if my domestic shower was only six litres a pop.

 

[NkdSailor]

What about the ecological and regulation aspects? I assume you have to have a grey water tank when using your own shower in the marina?

 

[Laysula]

And this is what perplexes me - why did you not carry on with the 5 minute walk to the marina showers, rather than using your own shower with your soaps and shampoos around you, towels and clothes and no walk?

5 mins in the car 20 min walk.