26m anchor locker drain interior access?

[fishstalker7]

All,

Does anyone have pics of the anchor locker drain area or access points (to mount a hose outflow into the anchor locker)?

What I'm trying to do is place a pump in the motor well area, run an interior line forward to the anchor locker thru the storage areas, and plumb it to a quick release hose valve inside the anchor locker (where I would keep a 5' hose for washdown).

On by boat, the interior v-berth section looks apart of the molded top deck, but I know there is a drain on the starboard bow from the anchor locker overboard. I thought I could maybe work with that and a valve system or just use the same area for a second hose run from the stern pump (if I can access it)?

Any thoughts or ideas would be great!

Thanks!

[Russ]

My only comment would be to simply run a garden hose above decks and leave the locker pure rope and chain.

The washdown pump lines are full of raw unfiltered non-chlorinated water. My 50' hose needs to be blasted out before actually using the water it's spraying. I wouldn't want that nasty water running through my boat up to the anchor well.

I think access is under the headliner in the v-berth. Might need to punch a hole and install an access panel.

--Russ

[NiceAft]

I'm sorry, but I read the post over several times, and I still don't know what is desired to be done Would someone please explain

Ray

[Russ]

Ray, my understanding is he want to install a washdown pump with an outlet in the anchor well. So he needs to get in the anchor well to route a hose into it.

--Russ

[NiceAft]

So, a hose is in the anchor locker, and the water pump is in the motor well. There would then be a hose, or tube traversing the Mac connecting the two.. The source for the water then would be whatever the boat is floating in. If that is correct, then there would be some sort of tubing going into whichever lake, river, ocean, etc. the boat is in. Is that correct?

Ray

[Highlander]

Here,s a pic really hard getting access to this unless u r willing to make some large cutouts like I did
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here,s the large panel I installed for access to under the anchor locker
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If u want to to any major work in that area as I did u need the large opening even still hard to work in that area I built re-enforcement brkt,s inside there bridging both sides of the anchor walls to the both sides of the hull to make a mounting bridge to attach my anchor winch
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I have my wash down pump mounted in the stern & use a curly wash down hose to reach the anchor locker

[fishstalker7]

Thanks guys!

Sounds like this may be a bridge too far...my thinking was that only time I really need a raw water washdown is on the foredeck to wash the anchor....so why not locate the hose fitting right in the anchor locker with a short hose (done on many boats) and the pump in the stern where I can drop an intake overboard without drilling a thru hull?

And then I thought...there is already a hose attached to the anchor locker via the overboard discharge...maybe there is a way to service it?

It sounds as though the only way to maintain the watertight integrity of the anchor locker/vberth area is to not cut an access plate (that would be needed to run hosing thru the interior from stern to bow)?

The hosing itself would be a closed system...so I'm not worried about pumping raw water thru the interior (straining filter on intake)...unless I can't access it to service the hoses/clamps.

Has anyone found a 30' collapsible or coiled hose (so I don't have more hose than needed filling up my motor well/auxiliary 5 gal fuel tank area)??

Or do you cut down the 50' hoses readily available in the stern hose/over the top deck system?

Still would like to do it as planned if we can figure out the engineering?!?

Thanks again!

[fishstalker7]

Ray,

Just to clarify...what you posted in your 2nd post is what I would like to do if possible (pending any reason not to do it that way)...thanks for your help, suggestions and ideas!

Fair winds,

David

[NiceAft]

Fishtalker7 said;

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.my thinking was that only time I really need a raw water washdown is to the wash the anchor...

After retrieval, I just plop the anchor into the water several times before bringing it on board. You could always attach a rope to a bucket to accomplish the same thing. It's the old K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) formula. The more mechanical the solution, the more that can need an expensive repair.

Keep it simple, and then spend the money on a nice bottle of wine.

Ray

[Russ]

I really need a raw water washdown is on the foredeck to wash the anchor

Here's what I do.

Tie the anchor off 1 foot below the water and drag it at low speed for a few hundred feet. Washes it off nicely. Frankly, you don't want to splatter mud all over with a hose.
Then put it on the bow roller. Don't have a bow roller, you need one.

--Russ

[fishstalker7]

Russ and Ray,

I concur with your methods and the KISS principle, but in some of our inland anchorages here we have a sludge that is sticky and messy. I've found myself dunking 40' of chain/anchor a dozen times or so to get it off. We have a bucket/brush system now, but it's a lot of messy work so we're looking for the easy method of washing the sludge off (thanks Lake Okeechobee discharges) either before it gets onboard or power washing the anchor locker with some pressure water. In some anchorages...it's bad.

But it sounds like the tried and true method is over the deck...so I'll pursue that method and look to find or modify a shorter hose that takes up less space.

Thanks for your help and time!

[NiceAft]

Try spraying the anchor with PAM

Ray

[fishstalker7]

Anyone got an aft Pam 50lb canister mounting mod? Lol

Thanks!

[Russ]

Try spraying the anchor with PAM

Ray

Henway oil works best