Fresh water purification

[dlandersson]

Nice article on Practical Sailor

Fresh water purification

https://www.practical-sailor.com/issues ... bbag080617

[Tony E]

I only sail on fresh water and have never sailed my vessel on the ocean yet. Because of that I invested into one of these:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/SAWYER-Complete- ... Sw3YJZUTn1

I have plenty of fresh water but I just have to clean it up a bit especially during the hot summer months. Every couple of days I have to make up some water which takes about 15 minutes to make a couple gallons and its gravity fed from one bag through the filter into the other so I am usually cleaning up the deck while this is going on.

What do you use?

[whgoffrn]

I've not actually used it as it's still in its package but I have and read lots of good reviews on the sawyer filter you hook to a 5 gal bucket .....also a zero filter that I use at home comes with a tds meter and the zero filter truly does filter out tap water to bottled water quality 001 tds so I can't see why it wouldn't do lake water also

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01CEJF5 ... ter+filter

[rsvpasap]

I have five connected 7 gallon water tanks. For the first couple of years I had the boat, I sailed 100% in freshwater, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, other midwest lakes. I installed a SAF-H2O model 512 under the forward dinette seat. http://www.safh2ouv.com/Model-500.html We almost always just pump water in directly from the lake via a seaflo pump dedicated to this purpose and to washing down the boat. The water runs through the filter system on the way into the tanks and back through the filter system again (via a different pump) on the way out of the tanks when the water was used. We also have a Seward/Whale S360EW 12v hot water heater for showers in the head or cockpit and hot water at the galley sink. http://www.goo.gl/qoHBt7 We use a lot of water. But as long as we are in fresh water, we have the ability to make an essentially unlimited supply of potable water at the rate of about 3 gallons a minute.