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At the home hardware stores, there is a mechanical dial switch used for
watering lawns. It is completely mechanical and operates on the passage of
water through it. Place it before the inlet on your boat. You can dial
however many gallons you want and it will cut off. Live aboards use this on
the dock water connection to dial a day or few days worth of water, maybe a
100 gallons or so and redial it when necessary. If there is a breach in the
boats onboard water system you only get a manageable amount of water in the
bilges before it cuts off. I have used one for a couple of years and it
works great...unless you forget to redial it...and you are in the shower.
:>)
What if the water system breaks at night? Do you have an alert? If
not....at the home stores there is a basement alert with a sensor on a 36"
or so wire that you can drop into your bilge and it will sound if it is
immersed. Uses a 9v battery and lasts for a year or more. I have used this
and it works great and is cheap.
I always have a switch to cut off the pressure water on the boat when at the
dock and using dock water.
Bob Clinkenbeard
Project 41' semi-displacement trawler
http://www.dreamwater.org/captainbob/
> For security's sake, I have started turning my dockside water off at the
dock end
> when I'm away from the boat even for a day or two. When we return and turn
it on,
> we have air at the faucets and spraying water everywhere? Both hot and
cold. The
> pressure pump to the onboard water tank stays on all the time. Is this
just something
> I should live with or is there something I should be looking at?
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