About Us
| Origins In 2007, one of Cruise RO Water’s founders Rich Boren was outfitting his 1978 Pearson 365 Ketch “THIRD DAY” for extended cruising with his wife and two children and started shopping for a watermaker. With a background in water filtration technology and an understanding of RO systems, the costs and complexity of the commercially available system spurred Rich to build his own 50 gallon per hour watermaker. |
| Throughout his families cruise, his high output system was not only one of the largest in the cruising sailboat fleet, but also one of the most trouble free systems due to it’s simple, efficient design and use of high quality components. Word travels fast through the cruiser’s coconut telegraph and soon both current cruisers and cruisers in planning began contacting Rich, asking if he would assist them in building their own high output watermaker. Sensing a market for a reasonably priced high output watermaker, Rich contacted Charlie, his longstanding business partner in San Diego with over 20 years of experience in industrial equipment installation and design and Cruise RO Water was formed. With Charlie in San Diego building and shipping the units, Rich is able to continue the real world product testing of SeaMaker 30 Serial No 001, as he continues to cruise and live aboard his new boat, a Hudson Force 50, with his wife and two kids in Mexico and California. You can follow the crew of THIRD DAY at their blog. |
 Rich giving the deck of his boat SV THIRD DAY a fresh water rinse down while in the Sea of Cortez. Fresh water is like time out cruising, you can never have enough! |
We were asked by a fellow cruiser how Cruise RO Water turned into Cruise RO Water and Power with the addition of the ElectroMaax line of power products. In much the same way Cruise RO Water was started, Rich's search for an affordable solution to a common cruising problem of always being short on battery power led him to a better solution than he was seeing with the so-called industry leaders.
While Rich was at the Annapolis Boat Show, he was looking to purchase a new high output alternator for his own boat and he was introduced to John Stevens, a fellow cruiser and co-owner of ElectroMaax. Rich learned that rather than contracting out a third party to build their alternators like most of the big industry names on the market, ElectroMaax designs, engineers and manufactures their own alternators. The more Rich dug into the company and products, the more he not only wanted them for his own boat, but wanted to offer them for sale through Cruise RO Water. As John Stevens said during their meeting in Annapolis, "timing is everything" because it turned out they were looking for a Western United States distributer. A business relationship was then formed, the words "and Power" were added to our company name, and an ElectroMaax high output alternator and wind generator are currently being installed aboard Rich's boat!
While Rich was at the Annapolis Boat Show, he was looking to purchase a new high output alternator for his own boat and he was introduced to John Stevens, a fellow cruiser and co-owner of ElectroMaax. Rich learned that rather than contracting out a third party to build their alternators like most of the big industry names on the market, ElectroMaax designs, engineers and manufactures their own alternators. The more Rich dug into the company and products, the more he not only wanted them for his own boat, but wanted to offer them for sale through Cruise RO Water. As John Stevens said during their meeting in Annapolis, "timing is everything" because it turned out they were looking for a Western United States distributer. A business relationship was then formed, the words "and Power" were added to our company name, and an ElectroMaax high output alternator and wind generator are currently being installed aboard Rich's boat!
