Fresh water for a galley sink

Philip Kidson pumps water from a remote container

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I recently wanted to fit a small Whale electric pump into my water container to supply the galley spout of my boat here in Taupo, New Zealand.

But to screw down the lid of the container would mean the cap had to rotate around the hose and power cable.

To do this, I poked the electric cable into the pump discharge pipe just above the pump outlet connection and ran it up inside the pipe to a point well above the cap, where I drilled a hole for the cable to emerge again.

I drilled a hole in the container cap just big enough to push through a double-ended hose joiner barbed fitting (from a garden irrigation system).

By pushing the hose onto the joiner from either side, the joiner was held captive through the cap.