[Paddlewise] Fw: Kayakers bildge pump?

I happened to see the following in rbp:



ANGST <angst_at_utc.campus.mci.net> wrote in article
<3544C437.63E83290_at_utc.campus.mci.net>...
> M metelman wrote:
> > 
> > Anyone know where I can get a thinner bildge pump for kayaking? 
> 
> Ive tinkered with this at length with only limited success.  My goal
was
> to make a pump that you could get your water out of your squirt boat
> with out having to pop the skirt.
> 
> The most successful thing that I have seen so far is a guy in Alabama
> that used a bulb pump for priming gas tanks on motor boats.  They are
$8
> bucks and you can get em at Wal mart.  He attached it to the Bulkhead
of
> his Corsica and just pressed his foot when he needed to pump.  He ran
> the tube to a hole drilled in the deck.  The valve is one way so you
> spray water out when you are pumping with your foot and it locks off
> when you are not.
> At the hardware store you can get a pump for siphoning kerosene for
> about $10.  Ive tried this.  The tube is pretty big diameter for
> drilling a hole on your boat, but you may be willing to run the tube
out
> your skirt every time.  I anchored the pump near my thigh and squeezed
> it through the skirt.  I got weird looks, but it worked all right.
The
> one way valve on this type of pump isn't that solid though and you get
a
> little back flow.
> 
> Ive tried numerous ways of doing it electrically without success.  If
> anyone knows a supplier of a SMALL (read very very small) submersible
> pump. Please pass the info on.
> eric z
> www.come.to/squirt
> remove the nospam to reply
> 
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