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BillD
Posted - 10/25/2020 : 11:50:28 Its supposed to get down to 21 F tonight, so I went out to my C-25 and drained the fresh water tank. I simply pumped it dry from the galley sink - about 1,000 strokes.
Is there an easier way to do this? Its a real pain pumping out a 30 gallon tank 4oz at a time.
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bmwtourer
Posted - 10/26/2020 : 16:59:10 if the boat is out of the water... How about simple gravity, put a hose in the tank through a cleaning access hole, and put the other end outside below the water tank level and suck the water through vacuum and let go!... I understand that would work great while the boat is on a trailer... like mine.
Voyager
Posted - 10/26/2020 : 16:31:10 Here’s a pump that I picked up for extracting water or oil. Somewhere around $10-15, depending on where you get one.
Posted - 10/26/2020 : 06:25:33 As pointed out above there are many ways to empty the tank. Another way is to simply add a piece of hose to the end of your bilge pump hose with a hose barb. Drop the hose into the tank and use your manual bilge pump to pump it out. Here is a photo of the cap on top of the tank. If I remember it is 3".
JoeRobertJr
Posted - 10/26/2020 : 05:55:58 I do the same as Angus. I use a hand pump marketed for draining oil out of a sump. It has a 4 foot suction hose. I can reach my arm partway into the tank, and actually get the hose into the bottom corner such that there is maybe a tablespoon of water left in the tank after I am done.
C25BC
Posted - 10/25/2020 : 19:22:33 I access my tank below the settee, unscrew the big cap and use a high volume hand pump to get most of it out.
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