It seems like a good buy except I’m not convinced that the waterport has very good water pressure based off of what I saw in this video. I have seen videos of the Road-shower and that one appears to have a lot better pressure.
Heck yeah, and if you’ve got a chuck coming outta your tanks, you’ve got an endless supply of compressed air to charge the thing up with! Wished I’d have had one when I was moving crushing equipment, can’t tell you how many times I got everything loaded up and ran outta daylight or hours and got stuck at some quarry with no shower before I crawled in the sleeper for the night. This woulda been a game changer for sure!
Just got mine off the UPS truck. First test netted almost 13 min of spray on the center setting after starting with 50 PSI off the air pump, then stopping twice to re-pressurize via the cap (100 pumps per stop). This thing is gonna be fantastic for boondock camping!
back to this video again. i used our waterport for showers this weekend works great except for the quick connects. I find they are leak a bit and I tryed to chargeing the unit with air had it full and I bumped the quick connect and it disconnected the hose and I lost all my pressure. Do you still use the quick connects ? I see you use a straight hose what length hose did you go with and what size vair air compress works good for both tires and waterport? Thanks.
Matt, fellow Arizonan here. Your videos are great: entertaining to watch, wonderful sense of humor and excellent content. Keep up the good work! My wife and I camped on Sedona ridge there just a week or two ago. Amazing views!
Thank you, that means a lot to me! I’m glad you and your wife got to enjoy that spot! It’s truly and amazing and special place that we like to enjoy whenever we can.
I feel impressed with this video. Superb editing, to the point, facts, just a fantastic video. Great job! By the way, Waterport now has the Waterport Weekender (8 gallons). I hope you do a review of the Weekender.
I've been going back and forth between the WaterPort and the RoadShower for weeks, but I'm leaning towards the WaterPort for one big reason: refilling. Let's say you've got your RoadShower mounted on the roof and you run out of water. To refill it, you've got to climb up on the roof of your vehicle and lug your water up with you. This is not ideal in situations where you're refilling with natural water sources like lakes or streams. Unless I'm missing something, with the RoadShower you'd need to fill it up at home, drive to your destination with 50+lbs. of water on your roof (not great for center of gravity), and then when it runs out you've either got to get up on a ladder to refill it or wait until you can use a hose. With the WaterPort, you can travel empty (saving on weight) and bring it to any clean freshwater source and dunk it underwater until it's full. Big advantage for anyone looking to boondock or do extended camping trips away from services and amenities.
Fill a 5G jerry can at the source, dump it in. The biggest downside to the Yakima are quality issues, same deal with WaterPort. I hope both of them improve their QC going forward. Still haven't made the decision myself.
I am having a bugger of a time figuring out a mount on my teardrop trailer. I started wondering if getting a longer one road shower or bigger water port would be the solution and trying to research mounts for my square bars. See this video is making me decided to stick with it.
Great review and nicely produced! I own the Waterport Day Tank and I agree with everything you mentioned in your video review.... I just got a Joolca system so I will see how useful it is in the real world compared to a more simpler system like the Waterport... Will definitely subscribe to your channel...
I bought one recently and they don’t ship with any mounts. The mounts have to be purchased separately in 2024. Unless there’s some loaded option you get to choose from?
When I purchased mine it came for sure with the receiver hitch mount, because that’s how I initially mounted it. I believe there were bar mounts with it for attaching to a pipe rack, as well. I ultimately bought the aftermarket bracket to put it on my Prinsu. Thats a shame they aren’t including them, I wonder if they lowered the price to suit?
Thanks for the awesome review! I’ve just purchased one after seeing this video. What’s the brand of the chair you are sitting on? It looks super comfortable!
Thank you! It's a Rio Hammock chair. I got it at Costco about 18 months ago. They did have them available again this spring for a decent price, who knows if they'll have 'em again next year?
Thank you. It was an Alps Engineering table. I wouldn’t recommend it, or any of the ones of its type. The shock cords on the inside of the table top frayed and broke within two and a half months of use, leaving it useless.
May be a dumb question, does this just slide down onto the mount and stay on its mount via gravity? Is there any concern of it bouncing off especially off-road when you can be going through some bumpy areas/drops? Or does it clip in somehow?
It comes with a mini padlock that threads through a set of eyes on the back of the shower and the mounting bracket that locks it in place. Sorry, I probably could’ve shown that better.
Great video. Random question for you. How do you clean your prescription eye glasses while camping? I have glasses and oily skin so my glasses get dirty and smudged easily and this has been holding me back from camping. Thanks for the tips!
I buy those moist lens wipe by the case from Costco. Not the most sustainable thing, but they do great work and I can stuff a handful in a pack and have it last me for a week or so.
It’s a Rio Hammock Chair. I found them at Costco at the beginning of the summer, but Amazon does carry them. Check it out here - www.amazon.com/dp/B07YP93XQ5/?tag=frugalexpfaml-20
Yeah, you can remove the cap and gravity feed it, if you have to. It definitely isn’t gonna launch a big stream of water like that, but the wife’s been able to finish washing her hair with it like that with no problems.
@@MattKester I used the waterport on my fender of my Hiker trailer and it works but hand pumping for pressure doesn't work well. I need to get a 12 volt air pump. I have also noticed with moving the coil hose around a bit the connections like to back off and leak. I am debating on buying a 12 volt nozzle and water pump and just take the top off plug the 12volt into a jackery and no more pressuring.
Yeah, I have up on the hand pump too, I either fill it off a hose bib if I can find one, if I pressurize it with my tire inflator. If both of us are gone shower with it, I’ll go ahead and hook the compressor up until we’re done, just in case j in need to repressurize.
It’s rated at about 3.8 gallons. It can hold a little more than that, but 3.8 leaves the right amount of space in the tank for the air to compress and pressurize the system. If we don’t go too bougey on the showers, we can get two good showers and have enough to do the dishes out of a single fill. As far as your rack, I’m not sure. I would think if you had sufficient clearance you might be able to use the bar mount to attach it to one of you. Worse case scenario, you could always roll with it inside the rig and set it up on the roof, or wherever you like, when you get there.
So, interestingly enough, the lifter that opens the valve on the shower nozzle broke after a year. Was easily replaced with a heavy duty garden one from Home Depot. The quick connects are still hanging in there.
Thanks! Not sure on the truck mount, we don’t have one in the fleet to test it on. I’ve never put anything but potable water through ours, so cleaning has been a non-issue. I just blast the exterior off with water if it gets dirty.
Ours came with it. I believe they offer it with either a black or a camp sleeve. They only had the camo one at Sportsman’s Warehouse the day we bought ours, so it’s what we needed up with, I’d have rather had black for its solar absorption properties.
t's on an L Bracket they produce specifically for mounting Waterports to platform racks. You just have to mount it ot the rack and bolt the waterport backing plate to it. Here's the link - www.ragofabrication.com/products/waterport-roof-rack-mount
We talking like factory crossbars, or aftermarket ones like Yakima or Thule? If it's the latter, what I ended up doing when we had it on our Discovery was using two strips of unistrut to bridge the gap between Yakima crossbars and act as a base for the Rango Fab bracket mount. Not sure it would work that great with a pair of factory crossbars though.
It's a Rio Hammock Chair. Got it from Costco last spring for like $50 or so. I believe I did see them there this past week, but no guarantees that's the case in your part of the world.
No, it’s pretty potent. When you fill it off of a hose bib, it literally DOES have the exact same pressure as your home shower. If you pump it up with your portable air compressor to 50psi, its actually got more water pressure than most home systems.
So how much are they paying you to promote the most ridiculously priced shower on the planet? An internal saddle tank and portable propane hot water shower would be cheaper, you'd carry more water and its weight is centered in the vehicle.
Very poor design. Overweight, complex, uses water inefficiently. Instead, a simple purpose-designed shower head with very SMALL holes and a fairly-high-pressure electric pump with less than a pound of rechargeable batteries, and an on-head electric switch would be much lighter. It also would deliver more consistent flow, and use less water per second for the same cleaning power as a common garden sprayer uses. I know about this because I've prototyped one for my own use.
This guy was great in the hangover movies! Great review!
Funny! 🤣
Damn it man. Accidentally clicked on this video and now have one coming my way when I originally didn’t want it. Great video.
It seems like a good buy except I’m not convinced that the waterport has very good water pressure based off of what I saw in this video. I have seen videos of the Road-shower and that one appears to have a lot better pressure.
thank you sir
i'm a trucker and this would help when i'm far away from truckstop
Heck yeah, and if you’ve got a chuck coming outta your tanks, you’ve got an endless supply of compressed air to charge the thing up with! Wished I’d have had one when I was moving crushing equipment, can’t tell you how many times I got everything loaded up and ran outta daylight or hours and got stuck at some quarry with no shower before I crawled in the sleeper for the night. This woulda been a game changer for sure!
More reviews like this and your channel would blow up
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Just got mine off the UPS truck. First test netted almost 13 min of spray on the center setting after starting with 50 PSI off the air pump, then stopping twice to re-pressurize via the cap (100 pumps per stop). This thing is gonna be fantastic for boondock camping!
Test #2. Same conditions, sat the tank at an an angle, stopped to pump a few times (100 - 150 - 100), made it to 13 1/2 minutes. Very good.
Dang! That things definitely working good for you!
back to this video again. i used our waterport for showers this weekend works great except for the quick connects. I find they are leak a bit and I tryed to chargeing the unit with air had it full and I bumped the quick connect and it disconnected the hose and I lost all my pressure. Do you still use the quick connects ? I see you use a straight hose what length hose did you go with and what size vair air compress works good for both tires and waterport? Thanks.
Matt, fellow Arizonan here. Your videos are great: entertaining to watch, wonderful sense of humor and excellent content. Keep up the good work! My wife and I camped on Sedona ridge there just a week or two ago. Amazing views!
Thank you, that means a lot to me! I’m glad you and your wife got to enjoy that spot! It’s truly and amazing and special place that we like to enjoy whenever we can.
I feel impressed with this video. Superb editing, to the point, facts, just a fantastic video. Great job! By the way, Waterport now has the Waterport Weekender (8 gallons). I hope you do a review of the Weekender.
I’d love to review it, I think it would work pretty good on the Disco!
I've been going back and forth between the WaterPort and the RoadShower for weeks, but I'm leaning towards the WaterPort for one big reason: refilling. Let's say you've got your RoadShower mounted on the roof and you run out of water. To refill it, you've got to climb up on the roof of your vehicle and lug your water up with you. This is not ideal in situations where you're refilling with natural water sources like lakes or streams. Unless I'm missing something, with the RoadShower you'd need to fill it up at home, drive to your destination with 50+lbs. of water on your roof (not great for center of gravity), and then when it runs out you've either got to get up on a ladder to refill it or wait until you can use a hose. With the WaterPort, you can travel empty (saving on weight) and bring it to any clean freshwater source and dunk it underwater until it's full. Big advantage for anyone looking to boondock or do extended camping trips away from services and amenities.
Fill a 5G jerry can at the source, dump it in. The biggest downside to the Yakima are quality issues, same deal with WaterPort. I hope both of them improve their QC going forward. Still haven't made the decision myself.
Porque be ❤😂😂😂
Good video and points of use. I’ve decided to go with the small one. Thank you. 👍😀 well done👏👏👏👏👏
Completely agree 👏🏼. Love mine too!
Probably my favorite piece of gear I’ve acquired in the last year!
I am having a bugger of a time figuring out a mount on my teardrop trailer. I started wondering if getting a longer one road shower or bigger water port would be the solution and trying to research mounts for my square bars. See this video is making me decided to stick with it.
Wow nice video and good review! You hit it all man.
Excellent video. You convinced me to buy a Waterport for my Ram Rebel.
Thanks! I don't think you'll be disappointed. Over a year later and we still use ours all the time!
Great review. Thanks bro! Gotta decide which size to get. Wish you would've talked about how many showers you get from this tank before refilling.
It's about two normal people showers. But if Nicole had to wash her hair, it was one and a half, if that gives you some perspective.
@@MattKester ok… very helpful. . thanks for the reply!
great review, excellent production
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great review
Great review and nicely produced! I own the Waterport Day Tank and I agree with everything you mentioned in your video review.... I just got a Joolca system so I will see how useful it is in the real world compared to a more simpler system like the Waterport... Will definitely subscribe to your channel...
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Think I’ll take a look at the Joolca myself!
how has your waterport be holding up?
Great review. Mind sharing which Rago mount you went with? Thanks!
I bought one recently and they don’t ship with any mounts. The mounts have to be purchased separately in 2024. Unless there’s some loaded option you get to choose from?
When I purchased mine it came for sure with the receiver hitch mount, because that’s how I initially mounted it. I believe there were bar mounts with it for attaching to a pipe rack, as well. I ultimately bought the aftermarket bracket to put it on my Prinsu. Thats a shame they aren’t including them, I wonder if they lowered the price to suit?
Walter Sobchak’s got an overlanding channel.
Thanks for the awesome review! I’ve just purchased one after seeing this video. What’s the brand of the chair you are sitting on? It looks super comfortable!
Thank you! It's a Rio Hammock chair. I got it at Costco about 18 months ago. They did have them available again this spring for a decent price, who knows if they'll have 'em again next year?
Does it have to be full then pressurized it with air compressor?
Digging your "production w/editing-in-mind" style
Thank you!
Thank you. Super helpful
Really well done walkthrough, thanks!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
Lovely video! What camping table is that! Been looking for one that big and foldable like that
Thank you. It was an Alps Engineering table. I wouldn’t recommend it, or any of the ones of its type. The shock cords on the inside of the table top frayed and broke within two and a half months of use, leaving it useless.
Awesome review. Helpful Thanks~
May be a dumb question, does this just slide down onto the mount and stay on its mount via gravity? Is there any concern of it bouncing off especially off-road when you can be going through some bumpy areas/drops? Or does it clip in somehow?
It comes with a mini padlock that threads through a set of eyes on the back of the shower and the mounting bracket that locks it in place. Sorry, I probably could’ve shown that better.
awesome video!
Great video. Random question for you. How do you clean your prescription eye glasses while camping? I have glasses and oily skin so my glasses get dirty and smudged easily and this has been holding me back from camping. Thanks for the tips!
I buy those moist lens wipe by the case from Costco. Not the most sustainable thing, but they do great work and I can stuff a handful in a pack and have it last me for a week or so.
7:45 - that was metropolis!!!
Yes it was! We camped out there one night on our way back from Montana last summer. What a crazy story behind that place!
What brand and model is your chair? Looks awesome and comfy.
It’s a Rio Hammock Chair. I found them at Costco at the beginning of the summer, but Amazon does carry them. Check it out here - www.amazon.com/dp/B07YP93XQ5/?tag=frugalexpfaml-20
So does it work better in on the roof as pressure runs out?
Yeah, you can remove the cap and gravity feed it, if you have to. It definitely isn’t gonna launch a big stream of water like that, but the wife’s been able to finish washing her hair with it like that with no problems.
@@MattKester I used the waterport on my fender of my Hiker trailer and it works but hand pumping for pressure doesn't work well. I need to get a 12 volt air pump. I have also noticed with moving the coil hose around a bit the connections like to back off and leak. I am debating on buying a 12 volt nozzle and water pump and just take the top off plug the 12volt into a jackery and no more pressuring.
Yeah, I have up on the hand pump too, I either fill it off a hose bib if I can find one, if I pressurize it with my tire inflator. If both of us are gone shower with it, I’ll go ahead and hook the compressor up until we’re done, just in case j in need to repressurize.
You can get a dual receiver for your hitch.
This seems perfect! Do you think it would mount to a minivan standard rack? How many gallons does it hold? Thanks.
It’s rated at about 3.8 gallons. It can hold a little more than that, but 3.8 leaves the right amount of space in the tank for the air to compress and pressurize the system. If we don’t go too bougey on the showers, we can get two good showers and have enough to do the dishes out of a single fill. As far as your rack, I’m not sure. I would think if you had sufficient clearance you might be able to use the bar mount to attach it to one of you. Worse case scenario, you could always roll with it inside the rig and set it up on the roof, or wherever you like, when you get there.
Does the water temp increase quickly?
Thanks
Thanks for the review. Have you experienced any issues with the quick-connect for the handle/nozzle?
So, interestingly enough, the lifter that opens the valve on the shower nozzle broke after a year. Was easily replaced with a heavy duty garden one from Home Depot. The quick connects are still hanging in there.
So the water will be cold?
1. Truck rail mount -- factory bed connection? Or connects to aftermarket rail?
GLADIATOR? i wonder.
2. Cleaning?
3. GREAT VID. Thnx
Thanks! Not sure on the truck mount, we don’t have one in the fleet to test it on. I’ve never put anything but potable water through ours, so cleaning has been a non-issue. I just blast the exterior off with water if it gets dirty.
Thanks for the review. Glad we failed...to disappoint!
Anytime, thanks for making a great product! I appreciate you watching and commenting on it!
Waiting patiently for my 8 gallon to ship out and arrive for us to use.
@@8oh8boyalldayeveryday I didn’t even know they had a new model out! Maybe they’d like to send me one to review?
Excellent video! New sub.
Thank you!
Good info new sub
I’m a wimp, the Coleman hot shower is my go to 😄
I hear ya! I usually end up boiling a pot of water or two to throw in this thing on less sunny days!
Damn I need this as soon as I get a pickup. You really did fail... to disappoint xD
Thanks! You'll enjoy it when you do! What kinda pickup are you after?
@@MattKester An affordable one with a large truck bed.
@@VHSVLOGS1103 What are you looking to do with it and what’s your budget?
What chair was that towards the beginning of the video?
It’s a Rio Hammock Chair. I really gotta make a video on it sometime soon.
Teflon tape all threads correct?
Great review . 3rd gen 👍
Thank you, glad you liked it! 3rd Gen, Best Gen!
Where did you get the neoprene sleeve for the tank?
Ours came with it. I believe they offer it with either a black or a camp sleeve. They only had the camo one at Sportsman’s Warehouse the day we bought ours, so it’s what we needed up with, I’d have rather had black for its solar absorption properties.
How did you mounted it on your rig?
t's on an L Bracket they produce specifically for mounting Waterports to platform racks. You just have to mount it ot the rack and bolt the waterport backing plate to it. Here's the link - www.ragofabrication.com/products/waterport-roof-rack-mount
And how do you mount to cross bars?
We talking like factory crossbars, or aftermarket ones like Yakima or Thule? If it's the latter, what I ended up doing when we had it on our Discovery was using two strips of unistrut to bridge the gap between Yakima crossbars and act as a base for the Rango Fab bracket mount. Not sure it would work that great with a pair of factory crossbars though.
Where can i find that chair?!
It's a Rio Hammock Chair. Here's the link to them at Amazon amzn.to/3po6Vm8
What's the chair? I gotta have one lol
It's a Rio Hammock Chair. Got it from Costco last spring for like $50 or so. I believe I did see them there this past week, but no guarantees that's the case in your part of the world.
No plastic aluminum only for me
Costco $159.00
I knew it was only a matter of time. Better get em while they last!
did you buy this with your own money??????? or was it given to you????
The pressure looks terrible and certainly doesn't come remotely close to a shower at home (as you said it does).
No, it’s pretty potent. When you fill it off of a hose bib, it literally DOES have the exact same pressure as your home shower. If you pump it up with your portable air compressor to 50psi, its actually got more water pressure than most home systems.
75$ is reasonable 200$ good luck
So how much are they paying you to promote the most ridiculously priced shower on the planet? An internal saddle tank and portable propane hot water shower would be cheaper, you'd carry more water and its weight is centered in the vehicle.
Too small
Very poor design. Overweight, complex, uses water inefficiently. Instead, a simple purpose-designed shower head with very SMALL holes and a fairly-high-pressure electric pump with less than a pound of rechargeable batteries, and an on-head electric switch would be much lighter. It also would deliver more consistent flow, and use less water per second for the same cleaning power as a common garden sprayer uses. I know about this because I've prototyped one for my own use.
Excellent review