4 year review of our DIY watermaker
Assembling a DIY watermaker kit is no easy feat, but the price point of a DIY system makes it totally worth it - especially if you consider you can make your own drinking water in the middle of the ocean.
Buying a DIY kit meant we could recoup the cost of going to marinas to fill up our water tanks after only a sailing season. That’s unbelievable, right?
If you plan to install a watermaker (whether that’s a DIY of off-the-shelf unit), plan to do it over a few days at a dock and be ready to take a few showers. Deciding where to install all the components will be the biggest hurdle; I promise.
Our SeaWater Pro produces about 20 gallons of clean water per hour, depending on the temperature and salinity of the seawater, draining about 60-70 amps. We run it for one, one and a half hours every other day and time our water production for when the sun is at its peak, when we get 30-50amps out of our solar system.
Making our own freshwater on a budget has been life-changing - we can take showers during ocean crossings and we even installed a small water machine on boat. That’s the ultimate luxury for cruisers!
Interested in getting a SeaWater Pro DIY watermaker kit for your own boat? Check them out here! https://seawaterpro.com?sca_ref=1318773.3ThbpgMEbt
