[Public-List] deck mounted bilge pump

[dterrell1 at charter.net]

this is good news.
Thanks. 
David

	-----------------------------------------From: "Gordon Laco" 
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Cc: dterrell1 at charter.net
Sent: Wednesday September 15 2021 7:01:45PM
Subject: Re: [Public-List] deck mounted bilge pump

 Hello David, 
 It is certainly not a Henderson…  
 Thank you for sending the photo… it is clearly a Whale Gusher 10. 
 Cheers 

     Gordon Laco  Surprise 426  

 On Sep 15, 2021, at 5:37 PM, David Terrell via Public-List  wrote: 
 Thanks for the alternate view. Right now I think I probably do not
 have the whale pump as it is not yellow in color. It has been
 suggested that it may be a Henderson.
 David

 -----------------------------------------From: "Stephen Gwyn via
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 Cc: "Stephen Gwyn"
 Sent: Wednesday September 15 2021 2:00:12PM
 Subject: Re: [Public-List] deck mounted bilge pump

 A dissenting opinion: I find the Whale manual bilge pump incredibly
 unreliable.
 The slightest pinhole in the diaphragm or lack of seal in the flaps
 and
 you can't get enough
 head to pull water up out of the bilge. The aluminium body very is
 prone
 to corrosion
 if there is a scratch in the coating. And for some reason they use
 British Whitworth threads which make sourcing replacements difficult,
 expensive or both. It's capacity in terms of GPH is much lower then
 the
 larger electric pumps. The ergonomics of pumping are poor; pumping
 more than a few minutes with get very tiring, very quickly.

 Manual bilge pumps are not required by Transport Canada on vessels
 over 9m.

 I have 3 pumps on board. The Whale, a 2200gph Johnson and a 150gph
 Rule,
 with the last on an automatic switch. Every spring, I dump the water
 tank into
 the bilge and exercise all 3 pumps. There are problems with Whale
 almost
 every year, whereas the Johnson and Rule have failed only once each
 in
 15+ years.

 "Oh" you say "but the electric pumps won't work if the batteries are
 underwater."
 I assure you, from experience, they will work just fine. The Johnson
 had
 the bilge
 dry in less than a minute.

 I have, as I say 3 pumps. But the Whale is not the one I'm counting
 on.

 SG
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