Shore Water Connection - 2001 - 52 SS

I have a different boat. It has shore water connection and I am very familiar with how it is connected. The external outlet, which is suitable to connect a regular hose, connects to a check-valve. The output of the check-valve connects to a pressurized cold water tube (blue in my boat). The tube is the same that brings water to the transom shower.

In my boat there is no need to do anything one the shore water is connected. Because the shore water has higher pressure than the pump, once shore water is connected the pump does not come in and all water consumed comes from shore.

a. I have, b. located at the transom close to power area, c. water pipe short to a pipe in the engine room on the pressured side of the pump, d. pictures may not be relevant to you because my boat is different (but I can take some).

Carlos, I might be able to help. Just recently purchased(last April) a 1994 53 Ocean Super Sport and had the same question.

You might have two water outlets in the cockpit as I do. One is for the raw water wash down and one runs off of the boat fresh water system.
"I was told" that you can connect shore water to the boat fresh water outlet. **You will have to make a hose or connection with two female ends.** One for the hose and one for the outlet. You can then hook shore water up to the boat fresh water system.
I have not tried it yet but will. Also, not sure but guessing that you will have to turn off your fresh water pump if you are connected to shore water.
I can not talk to the plumbing as I have not traced the system back.
You might try calling Ocean Yachts - 609-965-4616. I did speak to a Bob Hawkins who seemed to have some knowledge of the boats.
Good luck and enjoy your Ocean as I do mine.

From my owners manual - The shore water system starts with the sillcock hose connection in the cockpit. The water flows to the yacht water distribution system. The fresh water tank can be filled from the dockside hose.
There is a 12 volt breaker for the fresh water fill. Activating the switch triggers a "Murphy Valve" whick will allow water from the dock to fill the fresh water tank. When water flows from the water tank vent, turn off the breaker.

With the breaker off, I think it backfeeds the freshwater system and with the pump shut off you can use it as dockwise water.

On boats we have had there was a check valve in line with the pump to keep from backflowing through the pump.

We have always not only turned off the spigot, but also disconnected the hose whenever we left the boat. Coming off the boat we walked right past it so it was hard to forget.

On my 43' this is the answer as well. I have never done it but Ocean didn't install dock side water on my model. Not sure about others. One word of caution in addition to the others is I would put a pressure regulator on between the spigot and hose. I believe this is standard on an installed city water hook-up. Dock side/city water pressure could be much higher than what you get via your onboard pump and could blow out your plumbing if you're not careful.

The fittings you can by for the boat end come with a pressure regulator built in.

West Marine, Defender and others have them for boats. Not sure about the base material but they are finished in chrome.