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Re: bilge pump
By:David Blodgett
Date: 5/8/2000, 10:52 pm
In Response To: bilge pump (LARRY OBENSHAIN)

: I WOULD LIKE TO INSTALL A FOOT OPERATED BILGE PUMP IN MY KAYAK,I NEED TO KNOW
: WHAT PUMP WILL WORK,WHERE TO GET ONE,AN ANY INSTALLATION INFORMATION YOU
: MIGHT HAVE

: THANKS, Obewan

what you do...

this is just a little brain fart that I had. take one of the normal bilge pump that you xcan buy almost anywhere... they make some with a loop for a handle... get one of those. take some tubbing and run in under a strip of fibreglass on the keel line. have it open to the inside of your boat at the lowest point where the water will gather... run the tube underthe bulkhead and to the bottom of the pump. cut a small hole in the side of your boat and run another tube out that hole from the outlet part of the pump...

could take some jerry rigging but it would be cheap and quik

another thing you might want to do is put in a couple of bulk heads... a few deck lines and store a bilge pump under those deck lines... wear a nice skirt... LEARN TO ROLL "if you can't already"... and maybe carry a sponge along ;) that would probably be alot easier... in my mind

Messages In This Thread

bilge pump
LARRY OBENSHAIN -- 5/8/2000, 10:09 pm
Re: bilge pump
Erez -- 5/9/2000, 1:59 am
Re: bilge pump
Jack Martin -- 5/8/2000, 11:29 pm
Re: bilge pump/battery sources
John B. -- 5/9/2000, 10:14 am
Re: bilge pump/battery sources
lee -- 5/10/2000, 7:07 pm
Re: bilge pump/battery sources
Robert Woodard -- 5/10/2000, 6:33 am
Re: bilge pump/battery sources
David Bryson -- 5/9/2000, 4:49 pm
Re: bilge pump/battery sources...Thanks!
John B. -- 5/9/2000, 5:50 pm
Gel Cell
Jason -- 5/9/2000, 4:27 pm
Re: bilge pump/battery sources
Charles Cooper -- 5/9/2000, 12:47 pm
Re: Guzzler
Mike Hanks -- 5/8/2000, 11:19 pm
Re: Guzzler
Jack Sanderson -- 5/12/2000, 10:52 am
Re: bilge pump
Travis -- 5/8/2000, 11:01 pm
Re: Pete Roszyk is the "foot pump guy"
Shawn B -- 5/9/2000, 10:56 am
A Candidate Foot Pump Design *Pic*
Tim Stough -- 5/10/2000, 12:26 am
Re: A Candidate Foot Pump Design *Pic*
Shawn B -- 5/11/2000, 6:36 pm
More wild ideas.
Dale Frolander -- 5/10/2000, 2:10 am
Re: More wild ideas.
Tim Stough -- 5/10/2000, 11:34 am
Spring design
Dale Frolander -- 5/11/2000, 1:51 am
Re: Pete Roszyk is the "foot pump guy" *Pic*
Tim Stough -- 5/10/2000, 12:21 am
Re: Making your own foot pump...
Tim Stough -- 5/9/2000, 4:04 pm
Re: Making your own foot pump...
Shawn B -- 5/9/2000, 7:07 pm
Re: Making your own foot pump...
Tony -- 5/10/2000, 9:17 pm
Re: Making your own foot pump...
Dean Trexel -- 5/9/2000, 9:53 pm
Re: bilge pump
David Blodgett -- 5/8/2000, 10:52 pm