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03-24-2007, 03:00 AM
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Overkill is the only way to go
5700 GPH should be enough on the bilge pumps.
If only the boys on the Titanic had planned so well...... 
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03-24-2007, 08:04 AM
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Re: Overkill is the only way to go
You can never have enough suction thats for sure. Tell me about that vent you have there. Is it plastic or metal? and if metal were can I get 4 of them?
strick
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03-24-2007, 08:12 AM
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Re: Overkill is the only way to go
water OUT is good.
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03-24-2007, 01:14 PM
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Re: Overkill is the only way to go
No doubt!!!!!!!!!! i had to learn the hard way, but luckly i got to the mooring early enough before i lost her!!! another couple of hours !! ARHHHHHHHHH!!! But make sure if on a mooring you have enough juice in your batteries!!!!! yes i do have scuppers but on the seafari there is a step down to the cabin where water likes to go and then drain thru the drain holes in the floor which then fills the bilge!! So now i have two pumps in case one fails which did happen to me as well on a two week old pump!!!!! never can be to safe!!!!!
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03-24-2007, 04:44 PM
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Re: Overkill is the only way to go
My Seafari has two automatic 500 gph pumps - one forward at the cockpit sole, and one aft, an 1100 automatic aft 3 inches above the 500, and a 1750 manual aft. I leave my boat in the water for 10 consecutive days twice per year. I came to my boat about four years ago where I had moored it stern in to the beach at low tide with maybe 4 inches beneath the keel, and found it sitting on the bottom 10 hours later. I had left the kicker motor down, which acted like a kickstand and kep the boat very nearly upright. BOTH my West Marine automatic pumps had failed, for the same reason - faulty float switches. (I now have Rule pumps) I ended up rewiring the boat and ultimately replacing the fuel tank.
The moral of the story: Make sure you're redundantly redundant with your pumps.
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03-24-2007, 02:05 PM
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Re: Overkill is the only way to go
when my 20 is done it will have 3100 gph for the bilge pumps..
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03-24-2007, 02:24 PM
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Re: Overkill is the only way to go
mr sc
i gots sum pumps that i rig youz fer overkil too bye sam 
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03-24-2007, 06:48 PM
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Re: Overkill is the only way to go
Quote:
giggin'. Or is that just what you keep at the front door of your FEMA mobile home  See ya, Ken
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03-24-2007, 09:54 PM
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Re: Overkill is the only way to go
********Water in, bad---Water out,good.*******
I have to ask the same question as strick asked,Where did you get those nice vents,and are they metal?
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Also looks like a Kel-Tec P3AT...I caught he!! finding mine!!
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