Hello to all
I have a quick question about the use of a shower (pressure or Sun Shower) in the head area of a 25D. How do most 25D owners keep everything dry while use either type of shower. Shower curtain? Everthing in the head area in plastic??? What?
Fair Winds
Bill
Captain Commanding
S/V Rhapsody (the Original)
CD25D #148
Oklahoma Contingent if the NE Fleet, CDSOA, Inc
Galley Wench S/V Evening Light
<b><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" SIZE="+2">Gunnery Officer F/S Evening Light</B></font>
<B><font size="+2">Grey Beard</b></Font>
<A HREF="http://www.applegatemarina.com/">Kerr Lake, OK (Oklahoma's Outlet to the Sea)</A>
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25D Shower ??'s
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Bob B.
Re: 25D Shower ??'s
Bill,
I use the sunshower and have most things in plastic boxes.I use those rubbermaid boxes that snap down the top. The sunshower is so easy that I have never thought of using a pressure system. In winter, I heat some water on the stove and add it to the bag.
I haven't had much trouble with things getting wet in that it doesn't spray out so much. This area is where I hang my wet gear anyway so it is all prepared for getting wet.
Hope you find something that works for you.
Bob B.
CD25D Tiva
Charleston, SC
BundyR@aol.com
I use the sunshower and have most things in plastic boxes.I use those rubbermaid boxes that snap down the top. The sunshower is so easy that I have never thought of using a pressure system. In winter, I heat some water on the stove and add it to the bag.
I haven't had much trouble with things getting wet in that it doesn't spray out so much. This area is where I hang my wet gear anyway so it is all prepared for getting wet.
Hope you find something that works for you.
Bob B.
CD25D Tiva
Charleston, SC
BundyR@aol.com
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Catherine Monaghan
Re: 25D Shower ??'s
Bill,
Granted we don't have a CD25D and our CD32 has an installed shower (one of those shower heads attached to a long hose), but since the area where we shower is the same area that houses the toilet, sink, cabinets and storage shelf, the situation is probably similar in that things are going to get wet.
The CD32 has a cabinet with sliding doors and usually nothing in there gets wet. If that was a problem, I would store things in either plastic bags or storage boxes. The things on the shelf are another matter but I don't usually store much of anything on the shelf, just a plastic container of Pampers wet wipes and it doesn't matter if that gets wet. But so far, I've been able to shower without getting the shelf wet.
I keep a large sponge in the head on that shelf also. After showering, I use the sponge to dry off the surfaces that got wet, usually the top of the toilet lid, the floor and the lower portion of the walls.
The trick is to not use so much water that it sprays all over the place. You should use less than a gallon of water during your shower. So if you've got a pressure water system that draws water from a tank, you'll conserve water and if you're using a sun shower, there'll still be some warm water left over for your mate to shower too.
Here's how we do it. Put the stopper in the sink and fill until the water level is only about an inch deep (fill it from your sun shower so that it'll be warm but during summer months who wants a hot or warm shower anyway!). You don't need any more than that -- really! If you're going to wash your hair, get your hair wet first. You cannot do this without getting the rest of your body wet anyway. Just a couple of squirts from the showerhead should be enough. Make sure you keep the showerhead relatively close to your head and don't use alot of pressure, this way the majority of the water will get on you rather than the rest of the head. Then shampoo your hair. Next use a washcloth and get it wet in the sink and soap it up. Then soap up your entire body with the washcloth. Then rinse out your hair, again only using a few quick squirts with the showerhead close to your head and squeezing or "brushing" the soap out of your hair with your fingers. This only takes a few quick squirts and the water will run down your body rinsing away the soap as well. Keep applying short bursts of water close to your body until you're sudsfree. Then rinse out your washcloth using the remaining water in the sink.
Reach for your towel and dry off then grab that big sponge and wipe down the head.
Try it.
Cathy
CD32 Realization, #3
Rahway, NJ
Raritan Bay
catherine_monaghanNOSPAM@merck.com
Granted we don't have a CD25D and our CD32 has an installed shower (one of those shower heads attached to a long hose), but since the area where we shower is the same area that houses the toilet, sink, cabinets and storage shelf, the situation is probably similar in that things are going to get wet.
The CD32 has a cabinet with sliding doors and usually nothing in there gets wet. If that was a problem, I would store things in either plastic bags or storage boxes. The things on the shelf are another matter but I don't usually store much of anything on the shelf, just a plastic container of Pampers wet wipes and it doesn't matter if that gets wet. But so far, I've been able to shower without getting the shelf wet.
I keep a large sponge in the head on that shelf also. After showering, I use the sponge to dry off the surfaces that got wet, usually the top of the toilet lid, the floor and the lower portion of the walls.
The trick is to not use so much water that it sprays all over the place. You should use less than a gallon of water during your shower. So if you've got a pressure water system that draws water from a tank, you'll conserve water and if you're using a sun shower, there'll still be some warm water left over for your mate to shower too.
Here's how we do it. Put the stopper in the sink and fill until the water level is only about an inch deep (fill it from your sun shower so that it'll be warm but during summer months who wants a hot or warm shower anyway!). You don't need any more than that -- really! If you're going to wash your hair, get your hair wet first. You cannot do this without getting the rest of your body wet anyway. Just a couple of squirts from the showerhead should be enough. Make sure you keep the showerhead relatively close to your head and don't use alot of pressure, this way the majority of the water will get on you rather than the rest of the head. Then shampoo your hair. Next use a washcloth and get it wet in the sink and soap it up. Then soap up your entire body with the washcloth. Then rinse out your hair, again only using a few quick squirts with the showerhead close to your head and squeezing or "brushing" the soap out of your hair with your fingers. This only takes a few quick squirts and the water will run down your body rinsing away the soap as well. Keep applying short bursts of water close to your body until you're sudsfree. Then rinse out your washcloth using the remaining water in the sink.
Reach for your towel and dry off then grab that big sponge and wipe down the head.
Try it.
Cathy
CD32 Realization, #3
Rahway, NJ
Raritan Bay
catherine_monaghanNOSPAM@merck.com
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Gary L.
Re: 25D Shower ??'s
Hi Bill,Bill wrote: Hello to all
I have a quick question about the use of a shower (pressure or Sun Shower) in the head area of a 25D. How do most 25D owners keep everything dry while use either type of shower. Shower curtain? Everthing in the head area in plastic??? What?
Fair Winds
Bill
Captain Commanding
S/V Rhapsody (the Original)
CD25D #148
Oklahoma Contingent if the NE Fleet, CDSOA, Inc
Galley Wench S/V Evening Light
<b><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" SIZE="+2">Gunnery Officer F/S Evening Light</B></font>
<B><font size="+2">Grey Beard</b></Font>
<A HREF="http://www.applegatemarina.com/">Kerr Lake, OK (Oklahoma's Outlet to the Sea)</A>
Since both the 25D and the 30C "B" interior boats have similar arrangements, my only question to you concerns the drainage. We have a pump which takes the shower water directly out of the boat. By using the plumbed shower in the manner that Catherine described we keep the flow from flooding the sump and keep the floor relatively dry. Like you we have the sink vanity and another cabinet opposite with two large wet lockers forward, behind the head. We store all our linen in the cabinets, and everything on the shelves are stored in plastic bins. We just dry ourselves and then wipe the cabinet/ head/vanity tops. However, we also have a substantial lip under the door to prevent drainage into the salon.
On my CD26, I sometimes used the sunshower either in the salon over the bilge access, but most often did my showers in the cockpit well. Au natural when in an isolated anchorage, with swim trunks in crowded anshorages.
Hope this helps,
Gary Lapine
Red Witch III
CD30C, #339
Somerset, MA
dory26@attbi.com
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BobM
Re: 25D Shower ??'s
Cathy:
A great detailed description of a "Navy" shower. Could not
have said it any better myself. Water is a precious commodity
aboard ship unless you have a water maker on board.
Bob
Ranger #144
CD25D
ranger1442@hotmail.com
A great detailed description of a "Navy" shower. Could not
have said it any better myself. Water is a precious commodity
aboard ship unless you have a water maker on board.
Bob
Ranger #144
CD25D
ranger1442@hotmail.com
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michael phillips
Re: 25D Shower ??'s
We find that showering in the cockpit solves all of those problems! 
-michael
s/v KAYLA
CD28 #318
michael@sv-KAYLA.org
-michael
s/v KAYLA
CD28 #318
michael@sv-KAYLA.org