Tiara Yachts 53 COUPE, Owner'S Manual

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COMMISSIONING YOUR BOAT
6-7 53 COUPE
5. Fill the fresh water tank with clean, fresh water. The fill fitting for the water
tank is in the water connection locker , labeled WATER. The tank should
be filled until water runs out of the water fill fitting.
6. Keeping all faucets open, switch ON the FRESH WATER PUMP 1 & 2
breakers and empty the water tank. When the water tank is empty turn
the pump breakers OFF.
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 until all nontoxic potable water antifreeze is re -
moved from the system.
8. Ensure the water system, including the water heater and pumps, is
drained completely.
9. Close all faucets.
CAUTION
!
Notify all persons aboard that the fresh water system is being sani -
tized. Do not allow anyone to drink from the fresh water system dur -
ing the sanitizing process.
10. Prepare a chlorine sanitizing solution: in a container with 1 gallon of fresh
water, mix 1/4 cup of Clorox ® or Purex ® regular unscented household
bleach (5% sodium hypochlorite solution)
for each 15 gallons of water tank capacity
( Table 6-1 ).
11. Fill the fresh water tank halfway with
clean, fresh water.
12. Pour the sanitizing solution into the water
tank through the WATER fill fitting.
13. Fill the remainder of the tank with clean,
fresh water. The tank should be filled until
water runs out of the fill fitting.
14. Switch ON the FRESH WATER PUMP 1 &
2 breakers.
15. At each faucet, run about 1/2 gallon of
water out of each tap (hot and cold), then
close the tap. You should be able to smell
chlorine out of each tap.
Water Tank
Capacity
Cups of
Bleach
15 Gal 1/4 Cup
30 Gal 1/2 Cup
45 Gal 3/4 Cup
60 Gal 1 Cup
75 Gal 1-1/4 Cups
90 Gal 1-1/2 Cups
105 Gal 1-3/4 Cups
120 Gal 2 Cups
135 Gal 2-1/4 Cups
150 Gal 2-1/2 Cups
Table 6-1: Tank capacity vs.
cups of bleach