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Originally Posted by otterhound
Maybe just think about when the bilge pump fails as they all do at some point. You need to get the water overboard, not in the bilge.
Rod
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X2 on this and Capt. Chuck's post.
I got my 20 Bertram because the PO set it up for draining into the bilge and sank it at the dock when he had a failure. Bilge pumps and float switches are notoriously failure prone (and batteries often die). A self-bailing cockpit bypasses a huge part of this problem by keeping a whole lot of water out of the bilge; water in the bilge then becomes the red-flag it should be rather than a commonplace thing. Personally, I hate the idea of NOT having a self bailing cockpit.