[Public-List] Bilge pumps

[C.B. Currier]

I stay away totally from the electric now - tho I have one rusting away 
in my bilge - I have the whale manual pump and a traditional hand pump. 
That and a bucket are all you really need - I grew up on a Friendship 
Sloop and watched many a time as we would ship water out on the Cape Cod 
Bay ... The manual leather bladder hand pumps always did the job. In 
later years dad put in an electric rule pump - it always failed ...  
best rule on an A30 - 2 hand pumps and a bucket or 3 ... if things are 
worse than that - you got real problems.
C.B. Currier
Infinty #57
Daybreak #458
Kris Coward wrote:
> Just a sec, are you recommending _against_ having more bilge pumps than
> are strictly necessary, or was that actually your way of saying "go for
> it, but don't neglect the manual pump or any of the maintenance that
> should prevent your needing extra pump capacity in the first place"? :)
>
> Of course, before biking across Canada, I picked up 2 each of the
> brightest headlight and taillight I could find (even though I wasn't
> planning on riding in the dark). The owner of the bike shop (who also
> sails) remarked that this level of redundant preparation certainly gave
> me away as a sailor. (And yet, I still hven't gotten around to wiring
> and plumbing in the extra bilge pump over here.)
>
> Cheers,
> Kris
>
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 07:19:25AM -0400, C.B. Currier wrote:
>   
>> Don't waste your time
>> Many of the bilge pumps fail every year or two - after 2 or 3
>> replacements you will find that you are getting tired of putting a new
>> pump in. The simple fact is that the boat is pretty water tight and auto
>> bilges create more problems than they solve.
>>
>> Check that the whale manual pump you have works and just be sure to
>> visit the boat from time to time.
>>
>> C.B. Currier
>> Infinity #57
>> Daybreak #458
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 15:31 -0400, darcyhaldeman at cs.com wrote:
>>     
>>> As the new owner of Alberg 30 #152 we were wondering the best way to install an automatic bilge pump.
>>>
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