Using River Water on Board to bathe in?

[northern]

We have a jetboat that I put in a 6 gallon hot water tank that heats off the engine cooling system. I used the wash down pump to fill and provide pressure. Work great but we go to remote areas so standing on swim platform to show is not a problem.

 

[mrsrobinson]

When I kept a boat in Deltaville, VA, which is well water that really stink's, a dockmate used to bring his own water to his boat, using a big tank in the back of his truck.

 

[mrsrobinson]

Any chance your marina has a frost-free spigot within range? We run 200'+ of hose with tees down our dock for a few weeks after the water's turned off.

I've been on the Occoquan and that water's nasty!

When I first read the subject I thought the OP wanted to bathe in the river, and I thought "why not?"

I am one creek south on the Neabsco, it ain't pretty

 

[ReleaseTheKracken]

Not entirely serious, but in theory, if you MacGyver a filter onto your shower drain, you could recirculate the shower water and treat it with non-chlorine hot tub shock and throw a chlorine puck into the tank somehow (the puck eats whatever it touches so it has to float somehow). Unless someone is totally filthy, hot tub water lasts quite a while if it’s treated properly. I’d get the majority of the grime off at the marina or a gym shower and use the boat for touch-ups

 

[GypsmJim]

The week after I graduated from College, my buddy and I took my little runabout on a cruise along the iconic Erie Canal. We slept in the boat and often had to walk from a municipal dock with portable gas cans to get gas. Gas docks were minimal and they frowned upon giving a mere 6 gallons to a couple kids.

One night we moored in Rochester NY, alongside a big cruiser. When we awakened I pulled down the stern canvas cover to walk over to the men's room in the marina. As I exited the boat, the cruiser next dock began emitting a foul smelling brown liquid from an above waterline port.

That was 51 years ago. Yeah, I don't swim in marinas.....LOL...