Sorry to hear your bad luck story and like Capt. Chuck said Thank God there was no human injury or tragedy ending this story other then the work and $$ to retrieve the boat and get her back and running again. Those automatic bilge switches don’t last for ever. I have had them go faster than the bilge pumps go. I try to test my pumps before each trip just to make sure there are working. One time I almost sunk a New 18’ Hydrasport on the second trip out. I was taking in some water on a 20” transom and decided to turn on the pump to find out that the builder didn’t remove all the small chunks of fiberglass from the inside of the hull at the factory. Well as luck would have it those chunks got stuck in the impeller of the pump and now no working bilge pump. Well the day of fishing was over and a ride back in with lots of water in the bilge began. I was luck that day and the next day the second bilge pump was put in the boat with its own separate switch.
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Just for the Grins
01-02-2009, 09:23 AM
Re: Help! My Seacraft sunk!!!
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