We spend a fair amount of time as live aboards trying to prevent unwanted things from growing on our boat. Things like mold, moss, barnacles, what the fuck ever that hairy thing is that shows up in the scuppers after we have friends over for a bbq/drinks in the cockpit….the list goes on.
As I understand it, dirt dwellers will, from time to time water their lawns in order to encourage their lawns to grow. Even when I lived on land, I did not understand this concept. Actually, I did. I just hated mowing the lawn. So I would purposely NOT water my lawn in the hopes that it would not grow. Which, among other habits, did not make me the most popular house in any neighborhood I lived in.
Following this Link
If your are anything like us (meaning):
a.) You live on a boat
b.) You don’t fill your tanks on a regular basis. But, wait until the tanks are completely dry at 9pm at night, half way through doing the dishes before filling them
c.) Hate waiting till the tanks are full and over flowing before running up on deck in your boxers and sock feet to pull the hose from the fill tube.
My idea is to figure out how long it takes to fill my tanks, then hook this little unit up to my hose, and set the timer to that. No I can fill my water tanks AND take a nap, check the crab pots, or find a pair of industrial strength rubber gloves and remove that hairy thing from the scuppers.