Ok how many of you guys have dogs and take them with you on the boat?
Who ever said a Schipperkee does not shed is a lying S.o.b.
The central vac system consist of a small one gallon wet dry shop vac mounted in the rear bilge and long 1 1/4 " hose and hose inlet port.
The hose hook up is mounted on aft deck port side wall.
20' of hose coiled up and stored with the vac under rear hatch.
Switch on console ,AC 110 V
Throw switch, cant hear vac run now, :>) and suck up all the black wire like hairs that would otherwise find their way into the engine compartment.
Wash boat, switch on vac and suck up excess water on deck no mop needed.
User friendly is always good!
Pictures later.
S

John,
That is awesome! Mine is not so high tech.It is a wall mount unit about 20.00 but is shop vac brand and has great suction.The hose and fittings were 30 bucks extra.I was going to mount it under the seat in salon area or closet that is behind the wall in front of cockpit passenger seat but the wife didn't like the idea of using up the storage areas where she hangs her clothes and stores the blankets. You know the old saying Happy wife happy life :>)The anti skid surface that I covered the new decking with is a little hard to sweep debris from so this is the cats meow! I really like the fact that yours says MADE IN USA !
Steev

RIGHT! (Dave gets a gold star.) That's incedibly dangerous, for the vacuum coulds suck in gas fumes that would be exposed to the motor's sparking commutator.

Don't do it--please!

Jeff

Dave,
You are absolutely RIGHT!After thinking on it overnight I changed my plan to mount it under the seat in salon.
The vac is only one gallon and does not take up that much room.I also caulked around the hose where it goes through the bulkhead because I located the port to plug in hose on the aft deck wall.Thanks for the input . I have witnessed a boat explosion when some guy fueling his boat had the not so good combination of fumes in the bilge and a rogue spark!I just replaced my blower as the old one quit last fall the day we hauled her.I religiously run it for a few minutes and then do the bilge sniff with nose test and have a sniffer alarm in the bilge as well.What the heck was I thinking any way the wife can keep fewer clothes on the boat .Hey that's not a bad Idea , less clothes :>) :>) :>)

I'll add to Jeff's comment about the hoses being off:

Our survey when purchasing pointed out that the hoses were quite short, the blower hose extending only about halfway down. We added a new hose from the blower down much closer to the low point, keeping in mind that too low could get you in trouble if you have a major water problem in the bilge.

By the way, when replacing the cockpit deck last year we added a bilge pump hard against the transom. Of course it never runs while docked, but I figure it's handy when under way and a great back up in case of catastrophic failure amidship. It's tee'd into one of the new scuppers.