Small Boat Water Tank Ideas

[thomm225]

Originally Posted by Benz

I carry all my water in re-purposed half to one-gallon juice jugs and . Had 130 gallons while cruising. Nice thing was, you could always inspect the water for floaters, and if you topped up some jugs from a bad source, you hadn't messed up ALL your water. Also, it's easy to rinse out and transport gallon jugs, plus they fit under spigots easier. I don't like hefting around 5-gal water jugs.

Thanks.

I've done the one gallon jug thing so far for local 3-6 day cruises. Plus a couple cases of 16 oz bottles)

If need be, I could carry 40-50 of those pretty easily plus maybe a couple 5 gallon jugs/containers in the engine compartment. I also have about 20 gallons in the forward tank for emergency use.

That's a pretty good start for a singlehander.

Plus I could probably stop using two gallons for bathing off the sweat and use more salt water and a one gallon rinse when cruising full time

It's hard to sleep when you have salt water/sweaty skin from the days sailing so the bath part is important I have found regardless if you are alone or not when it's hot anyway.

[Pete7]

With the engine gone you should have a decent space, so how about a plastic tank say from Vetus:

https://www.vetus.com/en/fresh-water...ing-water.html

[thomm225]

Looks like one of those tanks would work. Thanks.