Was trolling at the G’town Hole yesterday and was using raw water to wash the blood out of the boat all day. About 1 o’clock I noticed the motor was sitting lower than normal. Opened the bilge up and it was full of water.To be honest I can’t remember if the light was on showing the automatic switch calling or not. I turned the switch on manual and the pump was not working. Luckily I had a spare with gator clips and flex hose. I will be adding a back up in the bilge on top of my spare. Scary feeling being that far out and having the boat full of water.
Good job having a back up:smiley:
In a true emergency, and maybe with a little advance planning, you could pull your wash down intake hose and put it in the bilge and use it to pump out the water. Same with the bait tank and live well pumps. They can pump water out too. On my charter boats with inboard engines I also rigged the cooling water intakes to a Y valve, and in an emergency I could use the engine water pump to clear the bilge. That pump will move a lot of water! If you plan ahead for these kind of things it’s just an inconvenience and not a catastrophe.
Capt. Larry Teuton
912-six55-5674
lteuton at aol dot com
“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose
Larry, you’re a genius, as usual. Miss ole’ Cracker on the other side . See ya…
“The big one’s still swimming, let’s go.”
I carry a manual pun also. If batterys are dead your arm will work a little while! Have had to use it one time.
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Larry, you're a genius, as usual. Miss ole' Cracker on the other side . See ya...
Not a genius, just had a lot of experience trying to keep boats from sinking from underneath me. Necessity is the mother of invention, but plan ahead. A scared man with a bucket can move a lot of water too:face_with_head_bandage:
Capt. Larry Teuton
912-six55-5674
lteuton at aol dot com
“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose
high water alarm in the bilge of any offshore boat prevents you from ever getting a bilge full of water before you are aware of it
How did all that water get into the bilge?
“If you had to tell someone how good you are, then you probably aren’t that good”
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ChrisV- one will be in before I go back.
SpanishKing- I used the raw water washdown all day, that’s the only place the water could have came from. Once water was pumped out the raw water was cut off and no water built back up. I just got the boat back from having repairs done and it looks like the pump may have possibly been changed. I can’t swear to that but I had to put a new pump in when the boat was only three months old last summer because a string got caught in the pump and burned it up. The string was left by the factory for pulling wires to the console at a later date. Good idea but it needed to be secured better. I used butt splice connections when I hooked the pump up last summer and I didn’t see them yesterday. I will know 100% for sure what happened when I get back to SC in a week or two.
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