Dehumidifiers and bilge switches

[Guest]

Re: believe it

1 switch on the dash (the only sort of dash switch that I have two of is windscreen wipers - is that the same?). Runs the engine bilge pump. Red light comes on when the shower sump pump was running, btw.

Push button on the elec panel in the galley marked bilge pump. Does nothing.

Hatch at foot of stairs - contains bog seacocks and box with shower sump pump.

Happy to host a 'Hunt the Bilge Pump' weekend - will get some wine/beer in...

 

[Guest]

Re: shame on Fairline!!

Another more clever fairline person (not sales) said indeed there is ONLY one. Dang. The engineroom is sealed from the rest of the boat fwd of the enginerrom bulkhead. Bilge in enginerrom, not forward.

But, I said, that means that the boat sinks if holed forward, or sinks if seacock valve goes wrong, closed or not, or if sking fitting otherwise bit busted, I said - there is no bilge pumop, yet enuf voume to sink the thing. Well, erm sed bloke, if it was holed fwd, then the engine bit which is heavier, wd be ok, and erm it's never happened and um Fairline do build to a very high standard, sed egr bloke, realising this quite crappo. All the others have three, he sed brightly, as if this any use.

Oh no, I toldim, that is lousy in the extreme, and if you'ever seen a boat holed fwd at 30 knots then the water comes thru as a high pressure wall - liferaft and mayday is first action. Meanwhile, at a more common level of failure, the boat sinking or not sinking is down to the flippin hose clips.

So in summary, I wd ask the court to disregard stuipid fairline twaddle as purveyors of high standards. If I was fairline, I wd rush round and fit bilge pump pronto, free of charge.

I was invited to feel a bit bad about fairline after my nasty scribblings earlier in the year re their design department. But now, I don't. "You don't really need a marine background" says the chief designer. yeah right. But if you went to Lanchester Poly in coventry, then took a job at Corby, we can take it as read that one was trying to avoid ever acquiring a marine background, I imagine. The bilge pumps must be just added later.

This is costcutting without brains. Ooh I am cross.

 

[Guest]

Re: shame on Fairline!!

Indeed. I will investigate getting in another pump...

 

[hlb]

Fraid your making it all to complicated.
Stick the midifier on the work top or sink and make life easy.

Haydn

 

[Guest]

Nah, they did this one a couple of weeks ago. If I remember right, due to high pressure in the Azores, the DH has to be low down or something and the sink's no good due to the adiabatic winds. I think that was the answer anyway, gotta dash, more homework to check

 

[Guest]

Would it be easier if I park the boat on her side, and let the water drain out the portlight?

 

[bryantee]

Never laughed so much for ages. but remember! Put potato up exhaust pipe first . Either side preferably.