{"id":1141,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:05:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:05:43","slug":"cleaning-water-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/cleaning-water-tanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Water Tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\"> I have a catamaran and the water tanks are about 6&#8242; long with several baffles to limit surging. There is only one access hatch on each tank at the aft end. There is now quite a lot of white scummy film lightly sticking to the sides and bottom. Although we don&#8217;t drink the tank water and only use it for washing, is there any way to (chemically) clean the tanks as I can&#8217;t physically reach most of the tanks surfaces to scrub them&#8211;recommendations on chemicals? The boat is based in Turkey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p class=\"Body\">Hi Arthur: There are lots of scale removers on the market, depending on what sort of minerals have been deposited (I am assuming your tanks are fiberglass&#8211;if they are aluminum, the scale could be a form of corrosion). The problem with the scale removers is getting rid of the residue. If this is only a cosmetic issue, my instinct would be to leave well enough alone and not bother with removal (which opens the possibility that the scale is covering small leaks).&#8211;Steve <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a catamaran and the water tanks are about 6&#8242; long with several baffles to limit surging. There is <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/cleaning-water-tanks\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-yacht-systems-faqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35990,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/35990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}