Question to A 25 owners ,what do you do for a shower?

[jcamill55]

Showering, what do you do when your out for a week or so. Thanks Jim

[NickScheuer]

We use a Pump-up Solar Shower sold by Duckworks. <http://www.duckworksbbs.com/gear.htm>

In our previous cruising yawl with self-bailing cockpit we could use it in the cockpit. Haven't used it aboard the Albin-25 yet, but it may be used on the foredeck, or ashore when moored in the boonies. Privacy on the foredeck will be a challenge.

The Pump-up is a black canister containing a couple of gallons of water, a hand-operated pump for adding air pressure to the airspace above the water, and a trigger dispensing nozzle with several feet of hose. Secured on deck, it soaks up solar calories on a sunny day.

We formerly used a black plastic bag solar shower and find the Pump-up much more convenient. For one thing, you don't have to suspend it overhead in order to have water-flow. You can easily re-pressurize the canister as the water level decreases.

The Pump-Up is really "insect spray" hardware which has been "adapted" for use as a shower by changing the spray nozzle.

Duckworks' is good folks, their pricing is fair, and will ship from Texas.

Nick

[NickScheuer]

PS:

The Pump-up Shower delivers more gal/min than a gravity-flow bag shower by virtue of the pressurized canister.

[Woody]

We just rub on a little soap and jump in the lake. Our A25 has a little swim platform which is handy for this.

[Riverjohn]

We wait for a rainstorm, strip, suds and hope for the best. If it doesn't rain, we wait until we get to a marina.

[RobS]

For warm weather/bathing suit showers, we use the sun shower on our 28TE, works perfect with our hardtop setup with the radar arch.

[jcamill55]

Thanks for the replies ,a sun shower on the swim step seams the way to go ,we plan on using it more when it is
Warm.