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djdurrett
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Response Posted - 06/25/2010 : 14:34:54

I completely understand your question. There are mini "bulkheads" that separate the various bilge compartments on my 79 FK. I don't have a manual bilge pump either. I had 5 inches of rain water in the dumpster but all interior bilge compartments were bone dry. I thought of installing a bilge pump, but thought I would need several, one for under the floor near the keel, one under the quarter berth and one in the dumpster. Instead, I just have a manual pump that I used in my kayak and a bucket. For small amounts of water, I purchased a "bucket head" vacuum from home depot and leave it on board that way i have a wet-dry vac and a head all in one!

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 06/25/2010 : 16:39:39

Something to bear in mind when purchasing an electric bilge pump for our boats. You want the largest volume pump you can fit in your bilge. Here's why: the volume of our boats is relatively small, and the volume of water that will sink the boat is consequently small, this means that a small leak can flood our boats in a short time. You want to be able to move as much water as you can while you're trying to stem the leak because you have little time to do so. Larger boats volumes increase geometrically with length, so they have more time before they're overwhelmed and sink. The higher the volume of water you can remove, the more time you have to find and plug the leak.

There's a good discussion about it here: http://www.boatered.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=131463

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dflynnatc
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Response Posted - 06/25/2010 : 16:56:52

Never saw one of these.

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by djdurrett
 I completely understand your question. There are mini "bulkheads" that separate the various bilge compartments on my 79 FK. I don't have a manual bilge pump either. I had 5 inches of rain water in the dumpster but all interior bilge compartments were bone dry. I thought of installing a bilge pump, but thought I would need several, one for under the floor near the keel, one under the quarter berth and one in the dumpster. Instead, I just have a manual pump that I used in my kayak and a bucket. For small amounts of water, I purchased a "bucket head" vacuum from home depot and leave it on board that way i have a wet-dry vac and a head all in one!
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