Hi Maurice,
Congratulations on the new boat! We are in season 6 with our 30-2 and really
love the boat. Our water tank setup sounds simpler than yours, we have one
valve that opens one tank and closes the other. It’s located next to the pump
at the forward end of the dinette on Firewater.
I believe the pumps are self priming. We have a belt driven beast of a water
pump that seems to be able to pull water pretty easily. I had a similar
issue to yours with the starboard tank last year. I could not find any obvious
issues either, but simply removing the supply line and blowing out the line
into the empty tank resolved the issue. I am guessing that there was some
growth or debris at the outlet on the tank side. We find the boat races
slightly better if we don’t use the forward tank, so we typically just fill the
starboard unless we are going on a long cruise.
Hope that helps, enjoy the boat!
Jim ReinardyC&C 30-2 “Firewater”Milwaukee, WI
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On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 8:09 AM -0500, "Maurice Poulin via CnC-List"
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
Hello,
As new owners of our C&C 30 mkii, we were out for a first weekend and had a
ball. Very comfortable and loads of fun on the water was our overall
appraisal! But we did run into a bit of a snag and I turn to the board for
assistance hopefully.
The boat has two tanks and we ran out of water on the forward tank pretty much
on our last evening so switched over to the second tank but never could get the
pump to prime and draw water from the second tank and charge up the lines.
Checked all connections and no leaks, plenty of water in the settee tank,
checked strainer on the pump all okay. Both tank connect to this distribution
gizmo with assorted ball valves that connects to the pump and from there to the
galley and head. As the boat is new to me, I suspect I may not be working this
gizmo thing correctly, not opening up the correct valves or maybe closing them
while thinking I am opening them. I see on the valve handles that one side is
pointed while the other side is round, possibly indicating on and off? Anyways,
confusion and the fear of running down the batteries to troubleshoot stopped me
from tearing this thing apart! I figured I would ask questions before doing
exploratory work at the dock! What should I be doing appropriately to switch
from tanks or can you run both tanks together, or not?
Alternately, the pump seemed to be not priming but I thought it was a self
priming pump perhaps I am mistaken in that, so how do you prime a pump would be
an alternate question?
Thank you all from this newbie that had a hand pump at the galley previously!
Cheers,
Maurice Poulin
C&C 30 MKII, Monoloy
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