[Public-list] Boat Leaks

[Lloyd Pulley]

By the way- you were right- there was a crack in the top of the manual bilge
pump and so there was no suction understandably.

Lloyd

On 9/20/06 10:31 PM, "edward schroeder" <eddiediver at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>>> 
>>> George Dinwiddie wrote: Lloyd Pulley wrote:
>>>> Recently heavy rains overcame my bilge I suspect and then overcame the
>>>> batteries and flooded the cabin up to an inch. I had it pumped all out and
>>>> then tried to use the manual bilge but could not seem to get it to work...
>>>> Is the re a valve, a prime needed of sorts to get that thing to work?
>>>> 
>>>> Is there anything else I need to worry about since it flooded so high?
>>> 1. You need to make sure that your manual bilge pump works, or fix it if
>>> it does not. This is a major safety issue. Most likely you've got a
>>> Whale Gusher 10. If so, you can get a rebuild kit for it with all of
>>> the rubber parts. You might want to take it apart, first, to make sure
>>> the aluminum casting is OK. I nursed one along for years, but finally
>>> replaced it. It's probably not worth keeping one as long as I did.
>>> 
>>> 2. You need to figure out where the water came in. This is a
>>> maintenance issue. Check the chainplates. If water is coming in there,
>>> you need to recaulk them right away before the knees rot out and you
>>> lose the rig. Check the deck fittings, particularly in the cockpit. At
>>> one time I was taking on a lot of water via the rudderpost fitting.
>>> 
>>>> Apparently the batteries now are shot and the cables fried.
>>> Been there. Done that.
>>> 
>>> - George
>>> 
>>> 
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