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From: Peter Gelinas (no email)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2008 - 13:27:15 EST
5 hrs to empty the boat with a gas powered pump and no water coming in once
she was refloated?
1: You have a neighbor who really dislikes you and put a water hose into your
boat
2: You have a malfunctioning vacume breaker on one of the bilge pumps. Water
went out, then syphoned back into the boat. The lower the boat in the water,
the faster it came in.
3: You had your water supply 'hard wired' from dock to boat.
I have a 108db Radio Shack buzzer wired in parallel to each of my engine room
bilge pumps. Very small pumps. Very low amperage draw. My batteries could run
the bilge pumps for days before the batteries would be dead. By then the
neighbors would have lifted the boat out of the water to get rid of the
sound.
http://www.radioshack.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=buzzer&origkw=buzzer&s
r=1
A heavy duty automatic bilge pump might keep you boat semi dry for a few
hours, half a day? until the batteries would be dead. THEN the boat would
sink.
(Yes, I have a 2000 G/hr pump on a 30 ft supply cord (12V) and a 30 ft outlet
hose in the emergency locker)
Peter> From: "Ken Tischler" <> By the time I got there 20
minutes later she was almost on the> > bottom. .> >> > TowBoatUS arrived a
couple of hours later with a gas powered pump. It took> > about 5 hours to get
all the water out and refloat the boat. What a mess!> > Worst part is we
cannot find how the water got in the boat. Once it was> > pumped out no more
water was coming in. All through hulls checked out > > fine.>
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