"...someone who has put a foot pump in a fiberglass boat with plastic bulkheads." Well, I don't have plastic bulkheads, but the way I did it help spread the load on the bulkhead. My boat has a fragile enough glass bulkhead, which I was not confident would stand the strain of frenzied foot stamping. I cut a piece of 50 mm (2 inch) thick closed cell (eva?) foam to cover the whole bulkhead, and covered that with a piece of 4mm marine ply. The foot pump is mounted to the ply, and the load distributed more evenly over the bulkhead. The whole thing can be pulled out for any necessary maintenance on the foot pump. It fits tightly enough without fastenings through the bulkhead, and is held in place by the intake and outflow tubes attached to the inside of the cockpit. The pump is a Chimp hand pump, converted to a foot pump by fitting a stainless steel spring internally. This is OK, but doesn't get rid of the water in the cockpit quickly enough IMHO. The ideal foot pump would empty the cockpit (at least to low, stable levels) between swells when surfing. All the best for 2K to Paddlewisers PT *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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