The Bloke and I are almost embarrassed to reveal that things are not entirely as we thought and it's taken s 6 years to discover it. We have taken the specifications for the boat as read. 1 fuel tank. Yup seen that, it's under the aft bunk. Specs say 170L. 2 x fresh water tanks. Specs say 2 x 150L. Yup seen those. One is alongside the fuel tank under the the aft bunk, the other is under the forward bunk. The filler points are on the port side deck and the valves to select which tank to use (or shut off) are behind the settee cushions just in front of the galley sink on the starboard side. Sweet!
The Blokes's recent installation of the new deck wash entailed removing almost every item from the f''rd cabin and revealed the water tank. It's not the first time we've pulled everything out but it was the first time we actually noticed the tank capacity. It wasn't 150L, it was 200L! That was very exciting news since extended periods away from the marina are both welcome and more frequent. An extra 50L can go a long way!
Is this the explanation for why we would daily check the water situation on the control panel and get unexpected and varying results? Oops, seem to go going through the water fast etc....
So when I thought that our cabin could benefit from a good airing and the mattresses were pulled out we decided to have a closer examination of the tanks beneath our bunk. This is what we found.
What we expected was a 150L water tank but it was 155L -TICK ; plus a 170L fuel tank, doh!
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| Water Tank capacity under our bunk. 155L! |
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| Diesel tank - 126L |
The result for the day was more water but less fuel. Possibly a win/lose situation. Luckily, we've always carried lots of spare water AND fuel when it really counted, but we certainly were carrying quite different quantities than we'd thought!
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