Old Fashioned Sink And Taps?

[FORTUNATA]

While I was browsing around my project fibreglass boat and working on the engine, I decided to take a look at the knackered looking relic of a water system. I'd assumed it was totally clapped but really I imagine it could be fixed up. Has anyone ever heard of such a system? It's a manual water pump. You open a sort of tap (similar to those found on water hoses) and then pump a hand lever that runs horizontally. I noticed it had the words "Agua" on it so one of the former owners must have gotten it from Spain many years ago. So, I wondered if those kinds of systems are still used? I may go so far as to fix it up somehow and restore the system exactly as it was meant to be.

[Chris Pink]

My water is pumped manually, well pedally to be pedantic, by a Whale Galley Gusher III and I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

Most of the hand pumps, which used to be common in boats and caravans before the shurflo's of this world came along, are pretty ineffectual.

[FORTUNATA]

There's an old fashioned word Americans used called "quaint" and I sometimes get that feeling. When I was a kid I used to do caravaning and back then they had the old mantle lights. T.V. was via a car battery. Things have changed a lot in caravaning and boating. Still, I like to sometimes keep boats as they are to reflect the time they were built. I wonder if there were showers using the same system?

 

My water is pumped manually, well pedally to be pedantic, by a Whale Galley Gusher III and I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

Most of the hand pumps, which used to be common in boats and caravans before the shurflo's of this world came along, are pretty ineffectual.