Among the many mishaps I had this summer was the falling apart of the water tank on ALlia. The copper fitting that runs into the tank pulled the top off of the thing, rendering it useless.
Rather than replacing the setup with the same thing, I was thinking of trying a smaller tank and/or a bladder-type tank. Has anyone had any experience with this?
It's been well-documented on here that the CD 25 has little room up forward for stowage. Perhaps with a smaller tank and a little work, I can create some room to store a spare anchor/chain, or whatever.
The old tank was far larger than I needed. I filled it at the beginning of the season and never came close to finishing it off. And the water gets nasty when it sits around that long (I needed it full to keep the boat balanced)
Cheers
eric
woodman_eric@emc.com
CD 25 water tank
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Bruce Bett
Re: CD 25 water tank
Eric:
I had the same problem this summer! I contacted the company whose label was on the old tank (Krakor or something like that from Wisconsin). They don't make that model anymore but the do make one the same size and shape but with the fittings in different locations. Some CD 25's (#478 for example) didn't come with a polyethylene tank, but a tank formed by a well in the fiberglass liner cover with the plywood top. On Sostenuto and I presume Alia, the liner was cut away in the well and the tank installed. On Sostenuto not enough of the liner was cut away. The tank was suspended at a few contact points. The copper pipe came out the back side of the tank and through a small hole in the bulkhead forward of the head. Since the tank was poorly secured it worked it's way down and back and wound up more or less hanging on that copper pipe! Can you imagine 15 gallons of water in a polyethylene tank hanging from a 1/2" copper pipe and bouncing around in a Lake Erie chop for 23 years! When I reinstalled I cut away a little more of the liner so that the tank fit snug against the hull and the bulkhead. When I drilled the hole for the pipe I made it oversize I should be good for another 23 years.
Interestingly I found that someone had put some small lead ingots up in the same compartment. Some of them had slipped back under the tank. I secured then as far forward as possible and when I filled the tank I found she floated her lines fairly well in spite of my 9.9hp outboard.
Good Luck
Bruce Bett
Sostenuto
CD25 #496
bettb@macomb.cc.mi.us
I had the same problem this summer! I contacted the company whose label was on the old tank (Krakor or something like that from Wisconsin). They don't make that model anymore but the do make one the same size and shape but with the fittings in different locations. Some CD 25's (#478 for example) didn't come with a polyethylene tank, but a tank formed by a well in the fiberglass liner cover with the plywood top. On Sostenuto and I presume Alia, the liner was cut away in the well and the tank installed. On Sostenuto not enough of the liner was cut away. The tank was suspended at a few contact points. The copper pipe came out the back side of the tank and through a small hole in the bulkhead forward of the head. Since the tank was poorly secured it worked it's way down and back and wound up more or less hanging on that copper pipe! Can you imagine 15 gallons of water in a polyethylene tank hanging from a 1/2" copper pipe and bouncing around in a Lake Erie chop for 23 years! When I reinstalled I cut away a little more of the liner so that the tank fit snug against the hull and the bulkhead. When I drilled the hole for the pipe I made it oversize I should be good for another 23 years.
Interestingly I found that someone had put some small lead ingots up in the same compartment. Some of them had slipped back under the tank. I secured then as far forward as possible and when I filled the tank I found she floated her lines fairly well in spite of my 9.9hp outboard.
Good Luck
Bruce Bett
Sostenuto
CD25 #496
eric wrote: Among the many mishaps I had this summer was the falling apart of the water tank on ALlia. The copper fitting that runs into the tank pulled the top off of the thing, rendering it useless.
Rather than replacing the setup with the same thing, I was thinking of trying a smaller tank and/or a bladder-type tank. Has anyone had any experience with this?
It's been well-documented on here that the CD 25 has little room up forward for stowage. Perhaps with a smaller tank and a little work, I can create some room to store a spare anchor/chain, or whatever.
The old tank was far larger than I needed. I filled it at the beginning of the season and never came close to finishing it off. And the water gets nasty when it sits around that long (I needed it full to keep the boat balanced)
Cheers
eric
bettb@macomb.cc.mi.us