Edd, Two tips for the AC raw water install.
1. Put a valve on the discharge thru-hull. Many installers don't do this. 2. Install a tee on the supply for a dock hose hook up. Mine is on the discharge of the pump. This will allow you to do a couple things. First, if your pump fails, you can hook up dock water to cool the boat. Second, you can close the discharge valve and use dock water to blow out any pluggage between the inlet and strainer. That's where most of Touche's pluggage occurs. It never makes it to the strainer. Probably not necessary in your area but in Louisiana's muddy waters, mud settles out in low spots in the raw water system. If the hose is sized properly it won't settle when running but when it shuts off, it can. Having a valve on each end of the system allows me to blow out the system each way. When I waas doing boat maintenance, I was always surprised at the amount of mud I blew out of AC water systems when I serviced them. Mostly it waslarger boats with long cooling water runs but still........ Dennis C. Touche' 35-1#83 Mandeville, LA On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 8:58 AM Edd Schillay via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Listers, > > Yesterday, I met with an AC installer on the Enterprise to cool off the > main and aft cabin, as well as fight off mold and mildew (as I understand > it, the expectation of growth of mold and mildew in this area is far more > reliable than, say, David Risch actually attending a C&C Rendezvous). > > The plan is to sacrifice some of the aft-cabin hanging locker. > > Until I haul the boat again, which I don’t plan to do for another four > years or so, I don’t have a dedicated through-hull. I’ve heard it’s not a > good idea to tee off of the engine intake, but there is the galley sink > drain nearby. Any issues with tee-ing off of that one? Obviously, I’d need > to refrain from dumping chemicals into the sink while the AC is running so > as those chemicals don’t go through the AC. Anyone know of any issues with > that plan? > > Also, I’m a little perplexed as to why tee-ing off the engine intake is so > bad. The AC is 110V AC-powered, so it’s not like I’m going to have the > engine running and the AC going at the same time? Or can I with my > 2000-Watt inverter and high-capacity alternator? > > All the best, > > Edd > > > Edd M. Schillay > Captain of the Starship Enterprise > C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B > Venice Yacht Club | Venice, FL > > Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log <http://enterpriseb.blogspot.com/> > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > >
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