No tank hot water shower

[surfthemtn]

So I was thinking of adding a hot water shower to the 242X. Because of the ballast I don't have room for a tank. Any reason I couldn't just tap into the hot water side of the cooling system for hot and cold side for cold. We don't do saltwater. I know I would have to have the engine running for pressure. My buddy has the same type of setup on his Mastercraft and its awesome when you get out of our high mountain lakes or just to warm up the kiddos. Any thoughts?

 

[Scottintexas]

I like the way that sounds, maybe redirect the cooling indicator lines (won't refer to them as pee-holes during this thread for fear it may end up in a Russian Dossier) into a tank with a secondary pump to make the shower head work? I wonder if the pressure would be enough after the tank was filled to then spit it out the indicator holes??

it would still be dirty lake water, in TX that would be an issue. Maybe an inner fresh water tank surrounded by the hot indicator water tank or wrap the fresh water tank with a metal hose for the indicator water to transfer heat to the fresh tank.

All that it may be just easier to install a fresh water tank in the bilge area with an electric heating element and pump.

 

[Scottintexas]

There's a lot of room in the bilge below the cleanout tray and if you took some time to search options I bet you could fit 5-10 gallon tank in your engine compartment

 

[Mainah]

I have an instant hot water tap from a water cooler that I recently destroyed and it is about the size of a beer can without the insulation. Works just like a traditional electric hot water heater with a heating element screwed into the tank. The issues would be that it is very power hungry, 120v ac, and may not be able to keep up with a shower. I may find a project for it in the future which is why I am hanging on to it but perhaps that will generate ideas.

 

[surfthemtn]

I found a nice kit on Wakemakers. Shower. I was thinking of tapping the engine lines for the cold and hot supply, running them both to the mixing valves and using the pump downstream of that to pressurize the water going to the shower head. I will have to check the working water temp of the pump but I don't think I would need a tank at all or a separate heater. No worries about the water being that dirty where we boat, just cold. Right now my boat is hibernating under about 2 ft. of fresh powder but I'm chomping at the bit.

 

[Mainah]

Sounds like it will work if there enough volume of hot water and the pump wil handle the temp. I have heard the wakemakers is great to work with. About to find out first hand when I place my ballast order.

 

[surfthemtn]

I used them last year for another fat sac/pump combo and a new surfboard they were great to work with! Remember that we have a discount with them also, Just bummed I found that out after my first order