a)
Let's begin with your RequirementsStatement.
This gives a reference for your use, souls aboard, your destination(s), your preferred duration of boondock, various and sundry.
Your RequirementsStatement -- always evolving -- also gives you an opportunity to tune your goals.
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b)
re -- fresh-water tank
Although some live-aboard folk are comfortable with baby-wipes and alternative 'grooming standards', we need a daily shower.
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Accordingly, we carry a ton of water.
An excessive amount of water.
Some might say we are obsessed with water.
Our battle-cry as we wade into the fray -- "Wet-Heads, Unite!".
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In our introduction with plenty of portraits, plus our reasons for our decisions, we describe our water kegs.
After a half-century of make-do camping in lesser rigs, we built our ExpeditionVehicle.
Based on our experience, these kegs offer advantages over a single yuge tank:
* modular
* some remain in-service in camp while others go to town for re-fill
* one keg can go to the picnic table or campfire
* a keg can be loaned to a caravan chum
* if one gets stanky, the others remain in-service and can clean the problem child
* our standard load is seven kegs, a total of thirty-five gallons... and with our massive GVWR, we can easily add a dozen more.
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Our fresh water stores in retired five-gallon stainless-steel Pepsi kegs.
These are popular with home-brewers of beer and kombucha.
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We workkamp near Eugene, Oregon.
This area has multiple retail sources for components to refresh and rebuild their very simple design.
A few O-rings, a couple brushes, and your kegs are set for years of pretty much zero maintenance.
Manufactured by Cornelius, Pepsi kegs are aka as 'Corny kegs'.
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Staying with the 'water' theme, later sections describe our shower Gizmo, with its 'up'-grade add-ons.
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You mention your rig is a partial conversion.
One advantage to building:
* you are intimate with your components and systems.
You can usually isolate or work-around minor issues.
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Compare this to a factory RecreateVehicle, enormously complicated components cobbled into enormously complicated systems... all cleverly concealed behind walls and floors and the built-in 'entertainment center' with electric fireplace and wine-chiller.
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As you might imagine, we built our rig with the minimum of gadgets and do-hickies:
* zero plumbing
* pretty much zero electric
* zero built-in lights
* zero holding tanks
* tiny interior
* Cummins mechanical engine (zero computers)
* Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) everything, zero purchases from the RecreateVehicles store.
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c)
Time to move on?
Grab a few kegs... new from the store or used off Craigslist.
Sanitize, remove the labels if they bug you, replace the O-rings if needed, and you are ready to travel and boondock the next day!
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d)
Another point about full-time live-aboard:
* zero pressure.
Any time, any direction, any destination.
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And you can shower twice a day if you want...
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