{"id":5176,"date":"2015-06-20T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T16:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2015-06-20T16:48:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T16:48:32","slug":"2015-06-20-water-maker-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/?p=5176","title":{"rendered":"2015-06-20 Water-Maker Part #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me say first off, Magnolia does NOT NEED a water-maker. This is completely a peace of mind convenience level of modification. Magnolia carries 135 gallons of fresh water in our main tank and another 25 on deck for emergencies. At our 6 gallon per-day consumption rate (which includes a daily hot refreshing shower) that takes us right to 3 weeks. That does not allow for any fresh water deck wash-down other than a good rain fall nor fresh water in in the heads (salt water is not the best thing choice for flushing) but is available. Previously we needed to pull into a marina or I haul jugs it in the dingy as below in the Bahamas. It is a fair amount of work to haul 135 gallons or 1035 lbs of water\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"041\" src=\"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/041.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>In terms of water-makers there are essentially two types, high-power\/high-output (120volt-AC) or low-power \/low-output (12volt-DC).&nbsp; Since Magnolia is equipped with a Westerbeke 8.Kw generator we opted to go for the high-power\/high-output unit made produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruiserowaterandpower.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cruise RO<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The unit is broken down into individual components to accommodate many different mounting configurations in many different boat layouts. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image.png\" width=\"644\" height=\"347\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cruiserowaterandpower.com\/images\/8bbfbe299d77f6da15f660884fc2d8fc_022d_mrep_fjop.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/p>\n<p>In Water-Maker Part #2 we will commence with the actual installation of the unit and configuration in Magnolia. We me luck, because at this writing we have not begun as of yet!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me say first off, Magnolia does NOT NEED a water-maker. This is completely a peace of mind convenience level of modification. Magnolia carries 135 gallons of fresh water in our main tank and another 25 on deck for emergencies. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/?p=5176\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5177,"href":"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions\/5177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/a2baker.com\/magnoliablog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}