RE: [Paddlewise] Spray Skirts for Cheap Bilge Pumps

From: Robert Woodard <woodardr_at_tidalwave.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:58:40 -0500
> This is not a great solution, but it might be an improvement:
> why not put a pump port on the spray skirt?  This would be a
> tube of material, big enough to accept the pump, with a
> roll-down closure on top like a dry bag.  It would be located
> in the middle of the skirt, about 6-8 inches forward of the
> body tube.
<SNIP>

Rob, this certainly sounds like a great improvement to me. I've been told
you can stick the pump down the tunnel, but I've never been able to pump the
water below the top of the seat bottom that way. Difficult position to pump
from and quite a bit of water still left in.

If the pump port is near the front of the coaming that should allow the pump
to reach all the way to the hull. You may need a slightly longer pump.

Woody


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