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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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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water OUT is good.

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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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when my 20 is done it will have 3100 gph for the bilge pumps..

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mr sc
i gots sum pumps that i rig youz fer overkil too
bye sam

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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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Ugh Sam, Is that there set-up for frog giggin' or Flounder
giggin'. Or is that just what you keep at the front door
of your FEMA mobile home :D :D
See ya, Ken

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Got to be frogs, you need multiple prongs for flounder...:) Also looks like a Kel-Tec P3AT...I caught he!! finding mine!!

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********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?