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[Neraida]

You guys are great! Not sure we could do all this boat stuff without you, awwww, aint that sweet (yik)

Alarmingly enough, this boat of ours is devoid of a bilge pump. Sooooooo what one do I want?

She's 28 feet long, very shallow bilge and plastic. How many Litres per min do I want/need?

Needless to say, we don't wanna spend a fortune, but i suppose it is a safety device.....

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[Jools_of_Top_Cat]

First off, if you need just one bildge pump you need a manual one, the electric pumps are nice, but must only be used as a backup to the manual.

A whale gusher type should do you fine.

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://marinestore.co.uk/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=mrst&Product_Code=0620202&Category_Code=pumpman>a bit like this one</A>

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[oldsaltoz]

G'day Neraida,

Manual bilge pumps are best mounted in the cockpit, this will allow you pump without leaving the tiller when sailing short handed.

If you have a space between the transom and the rear of the cockpit, install it here, it is not the easiest location to fit a manual bilge pump, but it is the handiest.

Hope this helps. . . . . .



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[Ivy]

I guess the other two posts sum it up perfectly, but may I just add that the best builge pump in the world is "a panicing man with a bucket"

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[vyv_cox]

Have you tried it? This very old statement is totally untrue, in my experience. A couple of years ago I was in the situation that I had about a foot depth of water inside the boat. Baling it out through the companionway with a bucket was extremely strenuous and we were hard pressed to keep going after about 10 minutes. Subsequently we fitted a decent manual bilge pump with 2 inch pipework, mounted where the handle could be operated ergonomically. In our tests we were able to move far more water with considerably less effort and in a shorter time.

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[Sybarite]

"How many Litres per min do I want/need?" How big is the hole?

Seriously I would have the bigest pump you can install/afford. It's like insurance you never need it until you do need it. Then you don't want to be blessing yourself for something that has a small flow rate.

Another thing I have read about is to have a T junction on your engine cooling system so that you can pick up water from the inside of the boat - need to have a good filter and one that can be easily deblocked.

John




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[richardandtracy]

That's a mighty fine idea. Why didn't I think of it?

Regards

Richard


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