[PUP] watermaker

[Terry Rolon]

Hey Robert

Our routine has been to make water whenever we moved the boat. Our DC 
water maker makes up for our usage in less than a days typical cruising. 
We don't like the idea of having to run the generator to make water. 
We've seen some boats that have to run the generator even with the main 
engine running to get the 240V power they need to run the water maker. 
There's another line of thinking that says buy a big water maker so you 
can fill your tanks up as fast as possible and so run the generator as 
little as possible. On a boat with an AC galley, that line of reasoning 
seems quite sensible. Our boat is a gas/DC galley, so it made less sense 
for us. About the only time we have to run our generator is on hot buggy 
nights at anchor when we can't sleep without cooling down the boat.

tr