I am getting ready to install a heat/air conditioning unit in my Sabre 42. I recently installed an Adler/Barbor 12 volt refrigeration unit with a water cooling option. I am wondering if I could use just one thru hull to supply both units. If I remember correctly, you used a manifold arrangement, with one thru hull, to supply water to several items on the Sundeer 64.
No problem – my guess is that a 3/4″ fitting would do both with ease. But, you may already have an incoming raw water fitting that you can use, instead of adding one. Perhaps something for the galley sink, a deck wash pump, or the heads?
On Beowulf we run everything off a single 2″ (50mm) through hull – and on the odd occasion have the 170hp Yanmar propulsion engine, a genset, and a watermaker all going at once. The “experts” say it cannot be done, but we’ve been doing this for years. Good Luck – Steve
Posted by Steve Dashew (November 30, 1999)
