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bigbill

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hey guys finally got the new mis b havin home. i'm new to the 58 yf game. i have a breaker that is marked water transfer pump, it looks original, i have two water tanks, the aft tank flows in fwd tank by gravity. does anyone know what this transfer pump is for, or where it is located. thanks bigbill
 
I can't help with the specifics re the 58 but don't be surprised at breakers that look original but aren't. Do you have the original manuals/blueprints for your boat? If not, it is the best cost/benefit $75 (or thereabouts) that you will ever spend. It will contain all info and drawings for your boat and will quickly allow you to identify how things work and what was original. You can get them from Hatt if you supply them with the hull number. I'm sure someone will post the phone number and name of the lady that handles this - I can't recall!

I have three breakers that appear original but they are not; one labeled "fuel Transfer", one labled, "Rotary Generator," and one labeled "Rotary Transfer."

In our case, the first provided the ability to transfer fuel from what was originally the forward waste tank to the forward main fuel tank, giving the boat an additional 105 gal fuel capacity (up to 807). The second was the breaker for an inverter; the third was to transfer certain circuits from the "normal" AC path (shore power/genny) to the inverter. All were labeled exactly the same way as the oem breakers and you would never have known that they weren't oem from their appearance.

Perhaps a tank was converted on your 58 but if so, the only ones "available" are the waste tanks. I can't imagine any process that would I would trust to convert a waste tank to a water storage tank. Although the boat could have initially been put in service that way I suppose - with waste never being put in the tank. Also, I guess it's possible that a water tank was added somewhere. And, of course, the other possibility, since I don't know about the 58, is that the 58 DOES have an additional water tank that requres separate filling. But the oem info will show that either way.

Let us know!
 
Bigbill: Smooth sailing and calm waters...CONGRATULATIONS...I think my favorite boat of all time is the 58 YF....Be sure to set a bunk up in either or both of the engine rooms....that's what I'd do!!!
 
BigBill,

If you had the original spec sheets and wiring blueprints from Hatteras (only $75 and a phone call with your hull number), you could look up where it is and what it is. However, I believe there was no water transfer pump on the original 58YF. My 53MY blueprints state that the 58YF and 53MY were identical except for the absence of an aft keel water tank and the addition of a cockpit water tank in the 58YF which causes the gravity feed and pickup lines to connect to the port stateroom underbunk tank. There was, however, a 32 volt water pressure pump which supplied water to the boat from the battery bank's DC power. Lots of owners have converted this to AC or have both AC and DC pressure pumps, like mine.

Does your boat have a watermaker? If so, maybe this item was added for that?

Doug Shuman
 
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