Hello fellow boaters,
Me and my husband are new owners of a 1980 38
c&c landfall and we're slowly getting acquainted with our new girl. We just moved the
boat out from the marina to a close-by anchorage, maybe 45 min of running the
engine. We do know there's a
water heater installed close by the
engine under the
cockpit and have used it once while in the marina (first time with a hot
shower on the
boat, what a dream come true) so we know it works great. After we moved to the anchorage, we went in to town to grab some things, maybe 4 hours tops. When we came back, I started the dishes, and the
water came out wonderfully hot like our
heater was on. I checked to confirm it wasn't, but can't think of how the water had heated up so much like that. We haven't investigated the
plumbing all so much, but we are wondering if the previous owner has ran the engine
cooling pipes through the water heater, and if anyone else has a similar setup or even a better explanation as to why my
holding tank is full of hot water, it would be quite enlightening. Not saying I'm ungrateful, this is a wonderful find. We just want to make sure there's not something wrong going on!
Thanks for any input and happy sailing[emoji2]
BTW did want to say that no, the sun wasn't
heating up our
tanks, unless its able to get through 2 layers of
fiberglass and balsa
wood and get the water to a wonderful 90°