Our first thoughts when we first decided to build the boat was to gather rain water and put it into the 40 gallon stainless steel tank. Then for our potable water use individual gallon containers. The reason for individual containers was to prevent getting bad water and poisoning our the whole water supply. Fast forward to today and we can now change our plans and install a water maker. A water maker is a desalination unit which takes in sea water and forces it through an RO membrane at about 800 PSI. Then out comes fresh clean water out the other side. How cool is that ? Now we will use the 40 gallon tank for our potable water and do away with the individual containers. I have chosen a 20 GPH water maker made by Cruise RO Water. This will fill our 40 gallon tank in about 2 hours.
This is the control panel for the unit.	Here is how it all comes together. I'll keep you posted as to how I am going to fit all this into the ship.