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Guzzler website *Pic*
By:Pete Roszyk
Date: 9/20/2001, 5:55 pm
In Response To: hands free bilge pumps? (Dan St. Gean)

Hi there.

I've installed several Guzzlers. I recommend the horizontal-handled 500 model. It's easy to adapt to the front bulkhead of the cockpit so that you can use your feet to pump while you are regaining control of the boat. For a return spring I use a lightly-tensioned bungee running from the 'toe' of the foot-handle to a fairlead jam cleat mounted under the deck just ahead of the cockpit.

If the photo here works (and it's been spotty today), it's of the internally-sprung foot 'button' model, which looks nicer than it works.

There are other brands available, and making your own is not beyond the competent do-it-yourselfer. Your local power/recreational boating supplier may well have one or two models or be able to order one for you if you can't find anything on the web. Last I knew, you couldn't order Guzzlers on the www., but they were available locally (Seattle metro) in at least three different suppliers.

Pete Roszyk,
in Snohomish

Messages In This Thread

hands free bilge pumps?
Dan St. Gean -- 9/20/2001, 3:32 pm
Re: hands free bilge pumps?
Dan St. Gean -- 9/21/2001, 4:12 pm
Re: hands free bilge pumps?
Jim Owens -- 9/21/2001, 7:42 pm
PVC pump outlet *Pic*
Pete Roszyk -- 9/25/2001, 11:03 am
Re: hands free bilge pumps?
Dave Braun -- 9/24/2001, 12:34 pm
Strum boxes are easy to make from...
Brian Nystrom -- 9/24/2001, 1:07 pm
Re: hands free bilge pumps?
Jim Owens -- 9/24/2001, 1:00 pm
As strum box is the pickup...
Brian Nystrom -- 9/24/2001, 1:10 pm
Re: As strum box is the pickup...
Dave Braun -- 9/24/2001, 1:23 pm
Guzzler with internal spring
Randy Knauff -- 9/21/2001, 2:29 am
Re: Guzzler with internal spring
Dave Braun -- 9/21/2001, 8:57 am
Re: Guzzler with internal spring
Severne -- 9/21/2001, 11:52 am
Guzzler website *Pic*
Pete Roszyk -- 9/20/2001, 5:55 pm
Re: Guzzler website
Dan St. Gean -- 9/20/2001, 6:01 pm