This winter we put an eva-dry 1100 in our forward head. I drilled a hole in the tank, and used plumbing compression fittings and silicone to modify it to continuously drain into the sink. It's set on a timer and runs off and on throughout the day.
In our galley I have a 35 Pint Garrison dehumidifier set on auto at 50%, with the garden hose attachment used to drain into the galley sink.
These two devices above pull a lot of water out of the air. The big 35 pint dehumidifier is only on board during the winter. We bought it on a door crasher sale at Canadian Tire.
We have three low powered low heat/dehumidfier air moving devices plugged in and set on the floor for the forward, aft and main cabin. We leave the overhead vents for the dorades open to encourage air exchange.
All five electric items plugged in run off the shore power, and draw under 2 AC amps on our AC panel meter.
Additionally we live only 5 minutes from the harbour so once or twice a month we go down, check everything out, and I take a mini shop vac and remove every last drip of water from the bilge that the bilge pump can't manage to extract.
Finally we have a small open jar of tea tree power gel in our main cabin. It leaves a nice smell and is supposed to inhibit mould.
It has been one wet and miserable winter on Vancouver Island. We have no smells, and no mould in our boat.
In our galley I have a 35 Pint Garrison dehumidifier set on auto at 50%, with the garden hose attachment used to drain into the galley sink.
These two devices above pull a lot of water out of the air. The big 35 pint dehumidifier is only on board during the winter. We bought it on a door crasher sale at Canadian Tire.
We have three low powered low heat/dehumidfier air moving devices plugged in and set on the floor for the forward, aft and main cabin. We leave the overhead vents for the dorades open to encourage air exchange.
All five electric items plugged in run off the shore power, and draw under 2 AC amps on our AC panel meter.
Additionally we live only 5 minutes from the harbour so once or twice a month we go down, check everything out, and I take a mini shop vac and remove every last drip of water from the bilge that the bilge pump can't manage to extract.
Finally we have a small open jar of tea tree power gel in our main cabin. It leaves a nice smell and is supposed to inhibit mould.
It has been one wet and miserable winter on Vancouver Island. We have no smells, and no mould in our boat.
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