Refrigerator drain

[Jim Bessinger]

Does anyone know where the water drains to from the refrigerator in a 1990 Hunter 30?Also how do you drain the hot water heater? do you let the water drain to the bilge?If you attach a hose to the drain cock, how do you get the water out without making a mess? Thanks

 

[steve rainey]

Ref Drain

I don't see a problem, good way to check to insure your pump is working.

 

[Jim Bessinger]

I meant to say ice box

I wasn't thinking clearly. does the ice box drain to a through hull or the bilge?

 

[Les Andersen]

Water Mess

Jim,Unless someone changed it, the icebox will flow into the bilge. To drain the water heater, or any other "clean" water, use a wet/dry vac. If you put a short piece of garden hose onto the water heater drain and let it drain into the hose of the vac it will suck it right up before it can go anywhere else. You will need to remove the upper water heater inlet line to provide a suction break but you will have to do that to put your anti-freeze into the water lines anyway. Also great for the bilge or water from the gland or speed indicator changes. Watch out if you use it for the engine bilge and get any fuel/oil into the vac as it will end up in any other places you use the vac, like your bilge. Best to keep that one separate.Good luck,Less/v Mutual Fun

 

[Dennis]

Draining

Ice box goes into bildge unless you reroute it like I have through a pump and then the gally drain. I drain the hot water heater with a gally pan. I drain at the drain valve and ii takes several pans to drain it. There is probably some water left below the drain valve but is not a problem. I put about 3-4 gallons of the pink stuff in the water tank and first flush the cold water. Then I turn the hot water on and the rest goes in the tank. I have never had a problem. In the spring I flush the tank a couple of times and am ready to go.

 

[Dean Strong]

Ice Box Drain

I've also heard of re-routing the icebox drain hose to the galley sink thru-hull using a T-fitting (above the sea-cock!). I'm going to explore this on our Hunter 30, it should be pretty easy to do since the ice box drain house is routed right under the galley sink to the bilge.Meanwhile, we freeze ice in large tupperware containers since I like to keep the bilge spotless and dry. If you depend on the bilge pump to get rid of runoff, you'll always have at least a quarter inch of water in the bilge. There is a lot of bacteria in icebox runoff which, if you're interested, can provide for some pretty interesting and odiferous biology experiments in the bilge....