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Originally Posted by pguillemin
Obviously ;; you need to go after someone ;; good
The problem with your attack on my answers is the following ; You are going after me instead of answering this guy questions ; He is trying to get answers on brand and system ; do you think you answered that ? so please forget about my answers ; I have been using quality pumps indeed on medium and large boats for a long time and in places where they cannot fail because you do not get parts ;
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Yes, I think I did answer his question, including brand and system:
"Par Max 4 & Accumulator tank (two gallon).
We live aboard full time, use pressure hot and cold water and we shower aboard. We pump about 140 gallons a week through this pump unless we are cruising, then it's more like 35 gal per week.
This one has lasted since 2004 (nearly 15 years). The previous one was immersed in salt water during a flooding event, so we put in a new pump (we carry a spare) and shifted the old pump to the salt water system, where it is still in use. I'm not sure how old it is, and the pressure switch is not working so I have an external pressure switch, and it is noisy, but the salt water system is used less frequently. I'll keep it there until it fails.
The 15 year old one on the pressure fresh water system is working fine. It has a 5 minute timer which cuts out if the pump runs dry.
We have standardized on this model pump, although now I guess it is a Par Max Plus that is available. It is excellent and, for us, extremely durable, quiet, and bullet proof."
And it is exactly because we too have traveled in places where parts and
service are unavailable that we chose one common pump as a standard, for almost all of our onboard needs, and carry a spare, but by the way, we found that West
Marine and Fed-ex will ship quickly and inexpensively to almost anywhere in the world. Buy something appropriate for the size of your vessel, which meets your capacity needs, from West
Marine or other vendor who ships internationally, and when it fails, you install the spare and get to a port where W/M can ship you a replacement.
But, by the way, in 20+ years of cruising we have never been without a working pressure water system, even though we have a manual foot pump back up, it has never been used. It's all about simple durable systems and exactly the right choice of spares.