White RV water hose

C-WEED · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:00 am Post subject: White RV water hose

Does anyone use the white RV hose to fill the water tank? I guess it cuts down on mold and bacteria. For dockside is the 25ft length enough? Or should I drag a full 50ft around?

Sneaks · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:32 am Post subject:

Actually, the white hose is more for taste than any anti-bacterial reason. The material it's made of doesn't impart a "plastic" taste to the water.

As a long time RV'er, I would suggest the 25 foot length. So far, with a 26 foot 5th wheel, we've never needed our 10 ft. "backup" hose extension in many thousands of miles camping and I doubt if the backup would ever be needed on our C-dory.

Alyssa Jean · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:52 am Post subject:

I use one of those smaller diameter permanently coiled hoses. Take up much less room.

C-WEED · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:24 pm Post subject:

Anna Leigh: Thanks for the tip. The Idea

just came on kinda dim. I have a coiled hose on the wash down. I can just use that.

JamesTXSD · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject:

OK, I don't have a C-Dory *yet*, but here's a good tip for a water hose on a C-Dory: you will not be using the hose as your water source (like an RV hooked to city water), but rather filling your tank and using your pump to get the water from there. With this in mind, you want a hose made for potable use so it won't give that plastic taste (even if just washing dishes). RV supply places sell hoses that roll up very small; we have a 25' hose that takes up about the same amount of space as a Chapman's Piloting... much smaller than the coiled hose. These are almost cloth feeling and are not to be used with constant pressure (as in having the water turned on with no water flowing for a week). They have their own integral reel: put one end of the hose into the reel and crank the rest in.

Here's an example: http://www.campingworld.com/browse/skus/index.cfm?skunum=6515&src=SRQB

They're also sold as "fold flat" hoses in places like Home Depot. Hope this helps.

Best wishes,
James B.

Chuck S · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:21 pm Post subject:

It's more than "taste." That taste is chemicals you really don't want in your body. It's solvents, etc.

White RV hose is dirt cheap anyway.

-- Chuck

El and Bill · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:08 pm Post subject:

We 'fourth' the white, flat RV water hose -- retractable and small.