I bow down before thee oh mighty keeper of the clean bilge! lol . Yeah, there is always a little water in by bilges. It is freshwater, usually from me washing or spraying something. The pumps don't suck it all the way out, so unless I go in with a shop vac there will always be a little. For the most part my bilges are oil free, until I screw up and spill some in them. I keep diapers under the engines for the known leaks/slobbers (getting that number down lower every season though!).
Someday I'll be able to vacuum out my bilges and expect them to stay dry!!
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02-07-2020 11:43 AM #11Senior Member
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Re: Stand Alone Dehumidifiers- Good idea or not worth it?
SOUTHPAWS
1986 52C Hull #391 8v92TI
PENSACOLA, FL
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02-07-2020 11:53 AM #12Senior Member
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Re: Stand Alone Dehumidifiers- Good idea or not worth it?
How do you know the bilge water is fresh? Do you taste it? Or are there salt detecting test strips? I am very leery of putting my bilge water on my tongue although I have been tempted as a leak location method. Anyway, is it safe to ingest bilge water even in tiny amounts?
Michael & Beth
Hull Number CV312
63’ Cockpit Motor Yacht
1986 model launched in August 1987
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02-07-2020 12:18 PM #13Senior Member
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Re: Stand Alone Dehumidifiers- Good idea or not worth it?
lol, not sure I'd taste it. We know it's fresh b/c the only time it rises is when we spray fresh water in it. We have dripless shaft seals so there is no real way for saltwater to get into the ER other than if we are spraying saltwater on the back deck or rear bilge it will flow forward (when at idle or rest) to the ER.
SOUTHPAWS
1986 52C Hull #391 8v92TI
PENSACOLA, FL
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Re: Stand Alone Dehumidifiers- Good idea or not worth it?
Semper Siesta
Robert Clarkson
ASLAN, 1983 55C #343
Charleston, SC
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02-07-2020 01:12 PM #15Senior Member
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02-07-2020 02:22 PM #16
Re: Stand Alone Dehumidifiers- Good idea or not worth it?
1: On previous boat I put the dehumidifier on the sink/galley countertop draining into the sink.
2: Dehumidifiers tend to ice up below 65ºF. There are "Basement Dehumidifiers" which have a defrost cycle built in.
3: A developed sense of taste is the advanced mechanics friend. We're talking "TASTE" not "INGEST".... lol. TIP: Smell it first.1978 53' Motor Yacht "LADY KAY V"
Hull number 524
Chesapeake Bay
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02-07-2020 02:45 PM #17
Re: Stand Alone Dehumidifiers- Good idea or not worth it?
I've been working on my boat every weekend and vacuum out any water. When the conditions are right, condensation runs down the inside of the boat and creates pools of water.
Robert
MANCHIONEAL
1973 43DC #365
Mattox Creek, VA
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02-07-2020 07:26 PM #19
Re: Stand Alone Dehumidifiers- Good idea or not worth it?
from what i have heard , you DONT want distilled water in your bilge, that is why the a/c condensate drain goes overboard not into the bilge. it causes premature rot in wood and causes smells
Mis b' havin
1972 58 yachtfish
58yf352
pass christian, ms.
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Re: Stand Alone Dehumidifiers- Good idea or not worth it?
JR, I've done the Pepsi taste test! Sorry we haven't met up again. I'll be back in the US in April. Hope your around then.
James
53' MY "No Regrets"
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