T&T: Anchor washdown "shower"

[Faure, Marin]

>Have any of you fabricated a unit that works well for you? How did you
fasten it so it stays aimed at the right spot?


This topic came up in conversation with a former Uniflite engineer just
this past weekend.  He suggested running a PVC tube out underneath our
anchor pulpit with a nozzle on the end that directed the spray at the
anchor chain just before it reached the bow roller.  We have a
garden-hose-thread faucet mounted on our deck next to the anchor
windlass mount, so a flexible hose could be made up to connect the
faucet to the aft end of the PVC pipe.  The faucet (and a similar one on
the aft deck) is fed from a 23 gpm AC salt-water pump in the engine
room.

I don't know if we'll actually do this, but it's an interesting idea.

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C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington