Many thanks John,I'll give it a go.
David

--- In amelyachtowners@yahoogroups.com, "john martin"
<symoondog@h...> wrote:

David,
In addition to the information I gave you about

winterizing your

watermaker, I forgot to mention that if you lay your Amel up in

extreame

cold, you may also want to winterize all of your salt water

intakes. This is

easily done by getting a couple of gallons of anti-freeze ( the

enviomental

type). Turn off your salt water intake, and take off the top of

the filter.

I call this the sea chest. Start your engine, and when all the

water is

gone, pour in the anti-freeze. When you see the anti-freeze coming

out of

the exaust, shut off the engine. Do the same thing for the

generator. With

the sea chest full of anti-freeze turn on each toilet until the

anti-freeze

goes in the toilet and out the discharge. If your anchor wash is

connected

to the same sea chest, run that also. Make sure the anti-freeze is

not only

enviomental friendly but non corrosive for aluminum, and rubber,

i.e. your

impeller and toilet parts. If you run your charger all the time,

it

generates enough heat to keep the engine room a little warm, but I

allways

turn off my charger and main battery bank when I leave the boat

for any

time. The bildge pump is wired direct to the batteries, so cutting

off the

main switch doesn't effect it, and if you do a proper job storing

your Amel

you won't need a bildge pump anyhow. If you leave the switch on,

then the

computers,clocks, etc. will eventully run the batteries down. This

also can

tell you if your batteries are going bad. I can leave my boat for

months

with no charger on and when I get back the batteries are still at

100% . If

I come back and they're at 90% they're gone. Regards John
'Moondog" SM 248

From: "john martin" <symoondog@h...>
Reply-To: amelyachtowners@yahoogroups.com
To: amelyachtowners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: "Monndog" sm248

From: "davidcrisp" <david@f...>
Reply-To: amelyachtowners@yahoogroups.com
To: amelyachtowners@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Amel Yacht Owners] Water maker lay-up
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 10:17:09 -0000

Now we are back in the UK where fresh water is free and readily
available I want to put our water maker to bed - for the winter

and

long term.
The instructions I have are very unclear. Can someone advise

me on

what the best method is for 'laying-up' the water maker?

Presumably

it will need sterilzing and protection against freezing? Our

is the

24V 50l/hr model.
Thanks,
David

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