[Public-List] Bilge Pump - Rain leaks

[dan walker]

have done the scuppers and the access port. was getting overflow from the cockpit icebox acces in heavy down pours, got that too. hence the beer plan

--- On Wed, 7/7/10, C.B. Currier <cbcurrier at spinrx.com> wrote:

> From: C.B. Currier <cbcurrier at spinrx.com>
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Bilge Pump - Rain leaks
> To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 12:06 PM
> That's an easy one -
> The access port (that bid disk) leaks - remove and rebed.
> Also the scuppers leak - remove and rebed. These take about
> 20 minutes to 1/2 hr to do ... easy...
> 
> Also - if you have an older hull - watchout for the thru
> deck screws on the toe rail they can leak too - esp as they
> get older.
> 
> C.B. Currier
> Infinity #57
> Daybreak #458
> 
> dan walker wrote:
> > i have had three automatics since 2000 so yup, they do
> not last. finally figured out most of the water in my bilge
> was from the rain. going to buy a case of beer the next time
> they predict three days of steady rain and put a floodlight
> in the area under the cockpit and just stare until i figure
> out the source. 
> > --- On Wed, 7/7/10, darcyhaldeman at cs.com
> <darcyhaldeman at cs.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> >   
> >> From: darcyhaldeman at cs.com
> <darcyhaldeman at cs.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Bilge Pump
> >> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
> >> Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 11:50 AM
> >> Thanks for all the info.  Yes,
> >> we have the manual pump, and no, we won't depend
> on the
> >> auto.  It's just one more layer of
> protection.  
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Rachel <penokee at cheqnet.net>
> >> To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> >> Sent: Wed, Jul 7, 2010 11:34 am
> >> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Bilge Pump
> >> 
> >> 
> >> John,  The iron starts just slightly aft
> (inches) of the
> >> under-sole bulkhead that separates the aftermost
> >> under-saloon compartment from the engine bilge. So
> you may
> >> not be tapping into it anyway. (But I still prefer
> the
> >> L-bracket mounting so you can pull the pump up for
> service,
> >> etc. and then you have no fasteners down
> low).  Not that maybe a liner boat does not have that
> particular
> >> bulkhead but the ballast should still end in the
> same place
> >> (i.e. just forward of the engine flywheel). 
> I don't know how they changed bilge construction for liner
> >> boats, but in the earlier boats all the ones I've
> seen have
> >> a really poor seal between the bilge and the
> ballast pig
> >> anyway (as in.... it had completely failed). 
> Rachel ex #221 On Jul 7, 2010, at 9:50 AM, JIRVING104 at aol.com
> >> wrote:      
> >>> I have a manually operated electric bilge
> pump, but
> >>>       
> >> generally use > the whale pump. the concern I
> have with
> >> the electric pump, is it is > mounted at the
> bottom of
> >> the bilge and the screws penetrate the >
> fiberglass into
> >> the iron keel. I would think jeopardizing the
> >
> >> watertight integrity of the keel would be a
> problem. Has
> >> anyone > found a good solution to this? 
>    
> >>> John Irving, #634 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>
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