rear fresh water hose down and tank questions

[cjmiller]

Boat has the rear fresh water hose down sprayer and tank. Do people use these? Is there a way to drain the water from the tank to keep it from getting nasty? Haven't looked around at the tank for a drain as that area of the bilge is pretty dirty (early winter project to clean it out).

[cjmiller]

nothing? just cleaned out the bilge and can't find any drain. Do people not use these systems or am I making a big deal out of some residual water being in the tank? I guess we could just add some bleach to keep anything from growing in there?

[Chasing Rays]

We filled ours (10 gal.) on our 2013 R5. Use it occasionally but not that often. I treated the water with boat drinking water tank treatment when I filled it just to keep it reasonably clean. Ours has a drain valve built into the the tank that would drain it into the bilge if I wanted to but its easy enough to just run the wash down hose out back until the tank is empty. I will dump a gallon of pink RV antifreeze in it this winter and run it into the system.

[AsLan7]

We filled ours (10 gal.) on our 2013 R5. Use it occasionally but not that often. I treated the water with boat drinking water tank treatment when I filled it just to keep it reasonably clean. Ours has a drain valve built into the the tank that would drain it into the bilge if I wanted to but its easy enough to just run the wash down hose out back until the tank is empty. I will dump a gallon of pink RV antifreeze in it this winter and run it into the system.

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