Extra Bilge Pump

[Captain of the Double G's]

I always have an extra bilge pump with the alligator clips and extra wire.
I know others have probably mentioned it before but this is a reminder.
Sometimes I bring it along on friends boats or when on a different vessel, its cheap insurance

 

[dingbat]

I always have an extra bilge pump with the alligator clips and extra wire.
I know others have probably mentioned it before but this is a reminder.
Sometimes I bring it along on friends boats or when on a different vessel, its cheap insurance

An exercise in futility….

A portable bilge pump is not going to keep with a hull breech. If push comes to shove, time would be better spent sending a DSC and preparing the crew to abandon ship.

 

[Captain of the Double G's]

A couple minutes more before sinking could save a life.

 

[dingbat]

A couple minutes more before sinking could save a life.

The obvious question…why carry a wired bilge pump and length of hose around in your dry bag when you could simply install the pump in the hull proper and call it good?

 

[Captain of the Double G's]

The obvious question…why carry a wired bilge pump and length of hose around in your dry bag when you could simply install the pump in the hull proper and call it good?

OK, truth be told is I have probably been watching too many marine salvage videos instead of messing with my boats.

 

[arks]

It certainly doesn’t hurt to have an 12V emergency pump available.
I’ve had one in a marked tote bag in my cockpit for 20 years, and it’s been used twice. All my slip neighbors know it’s there, and one night one of them got a call from another who hit something a mile away and had developed a bad leak on his 30 footer. Even though I wasn’t aboard, he grabbed my pump and took off to help. My pump (along with the built-in pump aboard) worked well enough to get him to the slip, where they got a big 120V sump pump that got most of it out quick. Whatever he hit bent one of his inboard shaft struts, causing it to leak into the hull. He hauled it the next day and had it- and his hull- fixed.

 

[alldodge]

For years I wanted to setup the same thing but for a different reason. If it gets real hot and stays that way with no rain the fresh water lake gets so warm it's like taking a warm bath. So I thought about hooking up a bilge pump and about 15 ft of hose to pump cooler water up to the top. Never done it and with all the rain we get off/on it's not an issue this year

 

[Captain of the Double G's]

It certainly doesn’t hurt to have an 12V emergency pump available.
I’ve had one in a marked tote bag in my cockpit for 20 years, and it’s been used twice. All my slip neighbors know it’s there, and one night one of them got a call from another who hit something a mile away and had developed a bad leak on his 30 footer. Even though I wasn’t aboard, he grabbed my pump and took off to help. My pump (along with the built-in pump aboard) worked well enough to get him to the slip, where they got a big 120V sump pump that got most of it out quick. Whatever he hit bent one of his inboard shaft struts, causing it to leak into the hull. He hauled it the next day and had it- and his hull- fixed.

so you may have saved a life