[Public-List] deck mounted bilge pump

[americo silva]

different strokes for different folks
I have both

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 10:49 AM Stephen Gwyn via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

>
> One more go around on the Whale pump (made in Northern
> Ireland, the country that built the Titanic...)
>
> To address Americo's comment: Yes, electric pumps
> won't work if the batteries die. I've never had a dead battery,
> but I have had a cracked diaphragm in my Whale pump.
>
> To address George's comments: Your experience is very
> different from mine. You find that the mean time between failures
> is higher for the manual pump, whereas I find the reverse.
> Hmm. Do we need more data?
>
> The other comment I have is that both times I found
> water over the floor boards, it was very reassuring to
> know that I could start looking for leaks while the electric
> pump took care of the current water. In both cases,
> the reason was trivially fixed and solvable even if I had
> had to man the pumps, but if it had been trickier and
> I had get to the cockpit every 5 minutes, that would
> have been... stressful.
>
> SG
>
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