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Watermakers

How Australian cruisers choose, maintain and size reverse-osmosis desalination — including the Blue Water and Pacific Light families the old desk imported.

Reverse-osmosis desalination membranes in an industrial plant

Photo: Reverse osmosis desalination plant by James Grellier. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Source on Wikimedia Commons. Also listed on the AM Wholesale image credits page.

Australian Marine Wholesale was the exclusive Australian distributor of Blue Water desalination and also listed Pacific Light watermakers. That is why this journal still treats watermakers as a first-class desk rather than a luxury footnote. On a Great Barrier Reef season or a Kimberley hop, the ability to make potable water changes how long a crew can stay off-wharf.

Begin with how to choose a yacht watermaker in Australia for the sizing logic, then how much fresh water a cruising yacht needs if the argument is really about tanks, not pumps. The brand-family piece is Blue Water versus Pacific Light. Tropical owners should not skip watermaker maintenance in Queensland.

A watermaker is an electrical load and a seawater system. Read it beside onboard power and, if you are planning the whole refit, the 30- to 50-foot electronics package.

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