Corraling a pump shower in cockpit

[CharlieJ]

Aboard Tehani I have a pump up shower sprayer from Duckworks, and love it. One of these-



It lives in the corner of the cockpit and is usually fine, but heeled to starboard it sometimes falls across the tiller which can be annoying

In this pic I'm way offshore, heeled pretty good (see the water in the cockpit corner? ) The bucket normally lives in that corner, not on top of the sprayer-



So I decided to "retain it" I cut a chunk of IPE to a semi circle, and sliced off a chunk of 6 inch PVC for a ring. The shower is 8 1/2 inches in dia, so I used a heat gun, softened the pvc and spread it to fit.



Notched the ends of the wood and inset the PVC ring, using two screws each side



The shower will slide in from the top, and won't tilt over any more. The half circle notch on one side is for the spray head to slide into and will corral that in the rear corner of the cockpit





All I have left is to screw it onto the cockpit side and forward face of the engine well. Unfortunately all my cordless drill batteries are dead , plus it has started to drizzle rain, so that part must wait

[Captain Smollett]

Nice!

I like projects like this.  Was the other day thinking about something similar for binoculars and another for the handheld GPS and VHF.

Grog to you, sir.

[CharlieJ]

Final pictures of the installation of the shower pump in the cockpit. Couldn't finish yesterday due to rain. Grime said he got drenched- apparently that area got 4 inches of rain- Here, we got MAYBE 2 tenths, 6 miles away by water.

Anyway, today I got the thing installed


Here's the ring bolted to the cockpit side - 3 - 1/4 lag bolts -



And here's the pump in place in the cockpit.



Works just like I planned- ;D

By the way, the lazzerette cover is not there, because I also was getting the engine idling right. Got THAT done also ;)

[Jim_ME]

Looks good, Charlie.

I'm going to have to get one of those shower sprayers. I remember you discussing it previously, and it does seem like a great SF/KISS-approved piece of equipment. :)

[CharlieJ]

Looks good, Charlie.

I'm going to have to get one of those shower sprayers. I remember you discussing it previously, and it does seem like a great SF/KISS-approved piece of equipment. :)

And at a pretty decent price from Duckworks, considering it's all set to go.

http://www.duckworksbbs.com/gear/shower/index.htm