Recommendations for a house water pump.

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David M

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I have a feeling a lot of cruising is going to be raftups this year. My house pump is dieing. It has been for a couple of years. I never really paid any attention to it because it served me for my needs and most overnights were at a resort/marina where I tied into the dockside water.

Any recommendations for a better pump. My main concern is the thing has never been any good at providing enough pressure in the head for a shower while on the hook.

I wish I had the model and GPH. After a day in the bilge, I had had enough. I can get the specs this week.

It's the original pump. 1998/9 Sea Ray 330 Sundancer.

TIA.
 
Anchor Management may have one for sale it's a high power unit puts out 150lbs of pressure of course this is enough to blow apart most systems but makes for a great shower. LOL

I have considered buying a spare to keep on board because we all know they will go at the worst possible time!
 
I put a Jabsco 369502000 in my boat probably 6 or 8 yrs ago - I also have the 305730000 Accumulator tank and we have plenty of pressure - two sinks, head, shower (don't use) and swim platform shower (hot & cold- use this a lot). It's a great pump.
 
I use the Shurflo Extreme VSD dual pump assembly rated up to 60 PSI at 10GPM.
My 1st worked for 6 seasons then a sensor went bad. I bought a 2nd unit and repaired the 1st. This year the last dual pump assembly only lasted 1 season but that is because the unit was not properly winterized. I'm waiting on the parts to fix it. In the meantime the repaired original is back in and working. This repair is through no fault of the pump but my marina and me not being able to be there last year when the boat was winterized.
This unit provides better even pressure then most dock water.
http://www.shurflo.com/files/Educat...ps/pds-Extreme Smart System 12v 5907-5304.pdf
 
With the dual pump I was able to remove one of the pumps fuses and use only 1 pump and it worked better then no pump. The unit really gives you great water pressure can be rebuilt (by yourself) and needs no accumulator tank.
Bill
 
I've been very happy with a ParMax 3 (Jabsco) and a Shurflo Blaster. I have an accumulator tank for the ParMax and it has run reliably for over 10 years now. The Blaster is pumping salt water and after about 5 years the valve assembly failed and had to be replaced (easy job). Both of them are running off regular pressure switches, which seems to be more reliable than the variable-speed type.
 
Willie after going through the service bulletins on my unit I realized the unconditioned power and the power wires feeding the unit were too small. As I mentioned earlier the smart pumps require clean power and no more then a 3% drop in voltage not 10% like most mechanical pumps. However my spare pump went bad due to it not being winterized last year. Even so it still worked when I removed the fuse feeding the blaster fuse. If I didn't remove the fuse the pumps (both) would keep running and build up a tremendous amount of pressure. I could have certainly got through the weekend or longer if needed once I removed the blaster fuse.
Bill
 
We just replaced our original (10 years old) Jabsco Par Max4 (40 psi) with the new version of same. The accumulator tank was replaced 2 years ago...

Anyway, pressure is fine for showering. We even could have upgraded to a 50 or 60 psi model... but I decided to just keep to the original pressure out of respect to the rest of the plumbing :)

FWIW, I think our pressure regulator for dockside water must be about 35-40 psi, since we seem to get slightly better pressure from the fresh water pump than from shore water.

-Chris
 
Our dock water is 40 pounds depending on the number of boats being cleaned or people at the cleaning tables with their fish. I am set up between 45-50 lbs of pressure with my system. It does work better on the house water system for showering then the dock water. There is no accumulator tank with my set up.
Bill
 
another SensorMax user here. I think ours is 5.6 gpm. I installed it more than 5 years ago and we are happy with it. We have 2 heads, wet bar, swim platform shower, etc. and the only time water pressure drops below an acceptable level is when someone is in the shower and one of the toilets are flushed.
 
I guess not many would buy one of these any longer but my "antique" Par belt driven diaphragm pump is indestructible. We get good steady pressure for showers and it isn't particularly noisy. I once blew out a hose and it pumped the entire tank into the bilge, then ran dry long enough to kill the battery, and suffered no ill effects.
 
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Originally posted by ronp

I guess not many would buy one of these any longer but my "antique" Par belt driven diaphragm pump is indestructible. We get good steady pressure for showers and it isn't particularly noisy. I once blew out a hose and it pumped the entire tank into the bilge, then ran dry long enough to kill the battery, and suffered no ill effects.

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