[Public-List] Bilge pumping using the auxillary engine

[Meinhold, Michael J.]

I did that recently and can attest to how fast a worried man can move
water, even lifting it from floorboards to companionway! 


Mike 
Rinn Duin #272

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Personally I would consider this as a last resort action.  As mentioned
it doesn't take much debris to take out the pump and then you are
powerless.  Also most small diesels and gas burners don't throw that
much water.  I would think a large electric pump, it could be an
manually switched or automatic or Water Puppy style would be a better
move.  Of course if you get a major leak even these may not be enough.

Don't forget the simple bucket,  A man standing up to his knees in water
can move a lot of it.



Jim Davis
Isa Lei
CT 35

"Ah consensus . the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles,
values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but
to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that
have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way
ahead.  What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner
'I stand for consensus'?"

Margaret Thatcher 

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