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Catching Water

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Brief How-To By Steve Dashew
Catching Water

How to design your boat so you can fill your water tanks just by opening the water fill on the deck. Dashew calculates how much water you can get from a trade winds squall.

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Collecting Fresh Water from your Sails

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Detailed how-to By Alvah Simon
Collecting Fresh Water from your Sails

Simple ideas for rigging a rain catchment device. 4 pages with diagrams.

[Cruising World, February 2000]
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Gifts from the Rain Gods

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Detailed How-To By Doreen Gounard

The author describes an efficient water collection system they developed in the tropics, catching both drinking and non-drinking fresh water. She also describes their laundry methods and lists the rules they follow to conserve.

[SailNet, 19 March 2004]
- Collecting water on a sailboat

Rainwater Catchment and Filter

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Detailed How-To

A novel installation to catch rainwater from the deck, then force it through a filter before storing it.

[Sail Magazine, November 2000]
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How to Catch Rainwater

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Detailed how-to How to Catch Rainwater

from Modern Cruising Under Sail by Don Dodds

[Cruising World, July 2001]
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Bulletin Board - Cruising World

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Extensive list with good search facility. Covers just about any cruising topic. Tree and branch format for threads.

[The Sailing Company, Middletown, RI, USA]
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rec.boats.cruising newsgroup

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Usenet newsgroup

Unmoderated forum on sail and power cruising. Lots of good advice and other resources, but you have to do some searching.

[Usenet, USA]
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alt.sailing newsgroup

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Usenet newsgroup

Unmoderated forum on various sailing topics. Some useful cruising information here, but you need to dig and you need to be selective..

[Usenet, USA]
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Cruisers Forum

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Non-commercial forum

A discussion board and photo gallery for cruising sailors and wannabes. Many specialized forums, including engines, multihulls, maintenance, piracy, the galley, insurance, destinations, and many more.

[Cruisers Forum, Buskerud, Norway]
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Cruising Discussion Group from SSCA

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Members of one of the largest cruising clubs exchange information and opinions on all cruising topics. No search facility. Use Ctrl-F on message titles, or just browse.

[Seven Seas Cruising Association, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA]
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