Fresh Water Tank Leak

Find a old phart named Bob Cannon in your woods. Great metal fab guy. He has been absent a while but worth it if you can find him to make access and repair. I last found him at Lauderdale Marine Center A few years ago. Used to live rite across the street from there.
Bob and I have always agreed on honest work and ways to make the impossible happen.

Any quality shipwright should be able to do a R&R.

Just curious, how many of you folks actually drink water from the boat tank?
Personally, I never did, even if none of my boats had corrosion or any other tank problems.
Bottled water is for me just one more item in the food shopping list, no big deal and cheap insurance.

We do on the lazzara (fiberglass tanks) . Carbon filter, UV light plus another filter at a dedicated tap on the sink. It s excellent. Taste better than the crappy purified stuff like aquafina.

when we go to the Bahamas for weeks, we used to load up 15 or 20 cases of Evian. Takes too much space

We have twin stainless tanks.
Not a problem.

Well, maybe myself and my wife are more fussy than really necessary.
BTW, the boat has integral fiberglass tanks for everything (fuel/water/black/grey), and we load fresh water through an onboard softener.
So, it's not like we ever had bad taste or smell from tap water - it's just that old habits die hard, I guess.
Together with the fact that we have excellent and inexpensive bottled water available.
In fact, we use it for anything meant to go down the hatch, including cooking, tea, coffee, ice.
But maybe we should rethink all that, 'cause of course reducing the stuff to load onboard is never a bad idea.
If Judy doesn't mind staying o/t a bit further, I'd be interested to hear more about the carbon filter & UV light that Pascal mentioned.
How does it work, and is it worth fitting?

Carbon filters and UV light treatments are usually SOP after a RO system.
Additional carbon filters and UV treatments for after tank storage can be in-line after the pressure tank or at point of service like a drinking tap at the galley sink.

Years ago I was warned that water would beat the price of gas. Bottled water did make that happen.

Josie and I had to come to a real life / survival agreement; If we can tolerate beer, wine, hooch & colas, then we can drink filtered tap water.
Amazing how much storage we ended up with.
Amazing how much money went back into the budget.

BTW, we do rotate one flat of bottled water for emergencys while deployed.

I don't have a RO system onboard, but actually I assumed that also Pascal was not referring to it.
I mean, he said that they fill the boat with cases of bottled water before going to the Bahamas, where I guessed they use to fill tanks with RO water.
Which in fact is not recommended for drinking, AFAIK.

Anyway, fitting a drinking tap in the galley with its specific filters+UV wouldn't be a big deal for me.
I'm just wondering if it's worth...
...Though I guess that's better discussed in some nutrition, rather than boating forum!

actually we used to load up on Evian before heading to the Exumas. Last few trips we ve relied on board start instead, as explained because of the amount we had to load and the space it took. Plus all the tree huggers making us feel guilty about plastic

I confess that I am a water snob and care about the taste. I can’t drink bottled purified water like Aquafina etc. if I use bottle water it has to be spring.. so I wouldn’t be drinking the water out of the tank if it wasn’t good

in Miami we fill the tank with city water. Because the boat heat a lot of use, water never stay in the tank for more than a couple of days. We never connect the boat to dock water. We don’t filter water coming in the tank because the city water contains chlorine which helps keeping the water fresh in the tank

the UV light is installed before the pump inlet. The carbon filter is on the pump outlet. The drinking water tap at the galley sink has a filter as well as water dispenser in the fridge.

In the Bahamas we only use the watermaker. No need to pay up to $0.40 a gallon for sometimes questionable quality. There is a Carbon filter on the product output going into the tank and then when in comes out of the tank it gets the UV treatment and the second carbon.

Pascal has it down, and is how we mostly do it.
Only difference; We are connected to the dock water (still 24x7 live-a-boards).
On laundry and/or boat washing days and before any deployment, we use up the ships water and re-flood with fresh.
Need the 240 gallons (ballast) in the stern for proper trim while at the dock (while the forward fuel tank is full).