We love ADORYBLE, our CD22.
We are planning to move up to a boat with more features for longer cruises.
Currently, we use a sun shower. We are interested in which Cape Dories have showers.
Can anyone tell us which Carl Alberg CDs have showers?
What Cape Dories have showers? Feature for next move up...
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Cap'n Mike
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What Cape Dories have showers? Feature for next move up...
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slaume
showers
The CD-30 does but we still use the sun shower. I have a really large one and have added a longer hose with a kitchen sink sprayer. showers are best when we swim climb back aboard, soap up, dive in again and then rinse with the sun shower. It stays on deck and is hoisted on a halyard to rise off after swimming even if we are not showering. I haven't ever tried the shower in the head compartment. It just doesn't seem right to get water and soap film all over that beautiful teak interior. I do not know at what size they started installing showers. You can be sure of 30 FT and up. I have to admit it is a great way to justify moving up to a larger boat, Steve.
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Steve Ing
Showers? ( or lack of ? )
I find this to be the most forgotten item on boats. I've seen boats with what they all a shower, butt I don't think so. I hope this post gets some suggestions of other boats with worthy showers. I like the sun shower also but not when it's 50 degrees and blowing like stink, or the water around the boat is brown.( as in Stuart Florida )
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Cathy Monaghan
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Showers standard on CD31 and greater...
A shower (usually a handheld attached to a diverter on the faucet at the sink) was standard equipment on the Cape Dory 31 and all larger models. Some CD30s, not all, have them. And the CD30MKII is one of the few models with a shower compartment separate from the rest of the head.
Anyway, we love being able to shower on our CD32 and use it often. Personally, I prefer to shower on the boat rather than going ashore to use the facilities at a yacht club or marina.
Cathy
CD32 Realization, #3
Rahway, NJ
Raritan Bay
Anyway, we love being able to shower on our CD32 and use it often. Personally, I prefer to shower on the boat rather than going ashore to use the facilities at a yacht club or marina.
Cathy
CD32 Realization, #3
Rahway, NJ
Raritan Bay
the trinity: Showers, ice and laundry
After days onboard with only cold water salt water baths, 'old salt' takes on a new meaning. A sparse fresh water rinse helps a bit but isn't completely satisfying.
BUT, Finding a shower in a strange port is a joy I look foward to. I come to take shoreside creature comforts for granted. Going ashore on wobbely legs with only two (or three) objectives: to find a shower and block ice (and perhaps do laundry) feeds my 'old salt' fantansy - it's a guy thing, I'm told.
BUT, Finding a shower in a strange port is a joy I look foward to. I come to take shoreside creature comforts for granted. Going ashore on wobbely legs with only two (or three) objectives: to find a shower and block ice (and perhaps do laundry) feeds my 'old salt' fantansy - it's a guy thing, I'm told.
Sail on,
Jack
CD28 Sea Belle
Hailport - Rockland, ME
There are old sailors and bold sailors, but there are no old, bold sailors.
Reef early and often. It's easier to shake out a reef when one is bored than it is to tuck one in when one is scared.
When your only tool is a hammer, all your problems look like nails.
Jack
CD28 Sea Belle
Hailport - Rockland, ME
There are old sailors and bold sailors, but there are no old, bold sailors.
Reef early and often. It's easier to shake out a reef when one is bored than it is to tuck one in when one is scared.
When your only tool is a hammer, all your problems look like nails.
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Ron Legan
Shower CD 330
Our CD 330 has a shower, hot water. Next to the head and sink is a small area with teak seat, and a hand held facuet/shower head unit. A curtin seperates the shower from the rest of the head area. to be honest we almost always use a sun shower or marina. I use the shower area for sail storage. The floor is a teak grate with sump pump. It is small buts works very well. Only problem is wiping down the area after use and getting it dry.
Ron Legan
ANDIAMO
Bainbridge Isaland, WA.
Ron Legan
ANDIAMO
Bainbridge Isaland, WA.
Small Boat Shower Solution
I picked this up from one of the Pardey books, and found it works very well.
I bought a plastic 2 gallon insecticide sprayer, complete with handheld shower handle for $25 at Home Depot. I put one gallon of water straight from the galley in the sprayer, then boil a couple sauce pans of water on the stove and pour them in.
Put the cover on and pump the handle 25 times to build pressure in the tank, then shower out in the cockpit with it. The two gallons is plenty, including a couple rounds of shampoo, as the water stops flowing when you release the trigger and soap up.
It feels absolutely wonderful, uses no electricity, requires no engine running, and costs very little. The water comes out under pressure at a near perfect 100 degrees (F). This is just one of the countless contributions Lin & Larry Pardey have made to the cruising community. I'll never cruise without it.
Best,
John Ring
CD28 #241 Tantalus
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I bought a plastic 2 gallon insecticide sprayer, complete with handheld shower handle for $25 at Home Depot. I put one gallon of water straight from the galley in the sprayer, then boil a couple sauce pans of water on the stove and pour them in.
Put the cover on and pump the handle 25 times to build pressure in the tank, then shower out in the cockpit with it. The two gallons is plenty, including a couple rounds of shampoo, as the water stops flowing when you release the trigger and soap up.
It feels absolutely wonderful, uses no electricity, requires no engine running, and costs very little. The water comes out under pressure at a near perfect 100 degrees (F). This is just one of the countless contributions Lin & Larry Pardey have made to the cruising community. I'll never cruise without it.
Best,
John Ring
CD28 #241 Tantalus
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a nice improvement for a solar shower is....
....to replace the cheapie green pull-out-push-in nozzle with a kitchen sink sprayer nozzle. The ability to just sqeeze the "trigger" down makes it much easier to conserve water. I heard this tip from Charlie Jones on the Trailer Sailor Board.
What I did was get a kitchen type nozzle complete with hose, then lop off the existing solar shower hose back to a couple of inches from the bag, then stuck the kitchen sink fitting in the stub hose and clamp it on with a small hose clamp.
I can take a decent shower with 1 gallon of water, including shampooing my rather sparse hair, although 1 1/2 gallons is nicer. Two is downright luxuriously wasteful.
They take more water than a sponge bath, but oh, so much more refreshing.
The big shortcoming to a bag-type solar shower is if it is a cool day and you need to heat water. Pouring hot water into a bag can be painful. I find that one part water as hot as you can briefly stick your finger into (130 deg) without burning plus two parts room temp water (70 deg) yeilds water that makes a nice warm shower, about 105 deg. If I had to heat water regularly, I'd probably forgo the compactness of the bag in favor of a sprayer jug as John describes. I may well go with a sprayer jug on the 26'er.
What I did was get a kitchen type nozzle complete with hose, then lop off the existing solar shower hose back to a couple of inches from the bag, then stuck the kitchen sink fitting in the stub hose and clamp it on with a small hose clamp.
I can take a decent shower with 1 gallon of water, including shampooing my rather sparse hair, although 1 1/2 gallons is nicer. Two is downright luxuriously wasteful.
They take more water than a sponge bath, but oh, so much more refreshing.
The big shortcoming to a bag-type solar shower is if it is a cool day and you need to heat water. Pouring hot water into a bag can be painful. I find that one part water as hot as you can briefly stick your finger into (130 deg) without burning plus two parts room temp water (70 deg) yeilds water that makes a nice warm shower, about 105 deg. If I had to heat water regularly, I'd probably forgo the compactness of the bag in favor of a sprayer jug as John describes. I may well go with a sprayer jug on the 26'er.
Tod Mills
Montgomery 17 "BuscaBrisas", Sandusky, OH (with trips elsewhere)
Tartan 26 project boat
Cape Dory admirer
Montgomery 17 "BuscaBrisas", Sandusky, OH (with trips elsewhere)
Tartan 26 project boat
Cape Dory admirer
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winthrop fisher
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Re: What Cape Dories have showers? Feature for next move up
hey, i have had three cd's "no shower" , i all was use sun shower or a bath in the cockpit with my wife.... winthrop
Cap'n Mike wrote:We love ADORYBLE, our CD22.
We are planning to move up to a boat with more features for longer cruises.
Currently, we use a sun shower. We are interested in which Cape Dories have showers.
Can anyone tell us which Carl Alberg CDs have showers?
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Al Levesque
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- Location: Athena CD33 #94 Salem MA
Our CD33 has a shower. It looks like standard equipment. It is a hose with hand held shower head that diverts water from the lavatory. It uses the head area with a curtain to protect the lockers. The grate in the floor covers a drip collector that has a hose leading to the deep part of the bilge. I prefer it to going up to find a land based shower so long as we have hot water in our tank.
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barleycopse
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- Location: CD31
"Loon"
Showers
Our CD 31, with an aft head opposite the galley, has a hand-held shower much like those found in campers. With 84 gal. of pressure water and a waterheater, it makes a nice arrangement.
Cheers,
Don Cline
Cheers,
Don Cline
Exteme shower
We have a unit from a company called Zodi (I think). It is essentially a SS garden sprayer tank that you can put on top of your stove and have hot in about 10 minutes. Then pump it up and rinse off with warm water. It's a bit rustic, but does provide for a warm shower on cold days without much fuss. We have kept things very simple aboard out CD36, but are still very comfortable.
Pat
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showers
Ours has one as well but is more or less useless, as Steve already stated.
For those with children, I got a great tip from a CD 40 owner at Cape Lookout this summer. Get a one gallon sun shower for every one in the family instead of trying to share the big one. It made perfect sense and we'll save our money for a few more of those. The happier mama and the young'uns are the more cruising we'll do.
Showers were a major event in our travels and we never went to a marina. I'm told that many of the marinas will let you shower even if you're just getting ice and a few gallons of diesel.
Chase
For those with children, I got a great tip from a CD 40 owner at Cape Lookout this summer. Get a one gallon sun shower for every one in the family instead of trying to share the big one. It made perfect sense and we'll save our money for a few more of those. The happier mama and the young'uns are the more cruising we'll do.
Showers were a major event in our travels and we never went to a marina. I'm told that many of the marinas will let you shower even if you're just getting ice and a few gallons of diesel.
Chase