Help!! My bilge is full, How do I empty it?

[RichMason]

Had Marc followed the advice he received, he certainly would have dribbled beer as he fought his overpowered boat.

[rschattman]

I just want to chime in with my support for all of us that are full of questions, complex to basic. If we are to be inhibited from asking the board will no longer be as rich and useful as it is.

All questions are welcome here and we should invite those new to CD's and sailing to feel welcome and supported by answering when we have something to say. Keep the questions coming!!!

Richard

[neil]

How come?

Because.

Becauce why?

[neil]

There is no stupid question but it had stupid answer...Is it drivel?


Hymodyne don't ever hesitate for asking anything in relation with your CD, you will receive a lot of valuable info, discard the bads answers, it's rare but it happen.

One of my first post was about what to do when you are over power when sailing downwind, one of the replies that i got was take a beer. At the moment i felt stupid but it did'nt take longtime that i received a good way to manage it and i could add that the guy who told me what to do made me a better sailor. Today i could take the beer but in my case i'm a canadian sailing in the US and i don't want to risk the chance that i got. Around here there are Border Patrol, Sherrif Patrol i don't want to mess with them.

O J, Drivel mean "Etre baveux".


Marc

This is interesting,
Getting over powered going down wind is a lot more dangerous (pitch polling) than up wind and I think the subject deserves its own thread. Its also harder to fix, I have been caught a couple of times where I could not jibe or head up because the wind had doubled and If I had tryed either I would have been flattened, I ended up diving onto the deck and cutting the jib halliard
(this was on a victoria 18)

[Bill Goldsmith]

Dear All:

I had thought that this was, more or less, a serious site until I read the dribble posted here.

If the original poster doesn't know how to get the water out of his bilge when his boat is on dry land, he shouldn't ever be on the water. Worse, are those who responded to this stupidity.

Get real or get off this site.

Oh my!

Here's a quote from the FAQs setting the ground rules for the Board:

"In order to keep this board a safe, friendly place for discussing Cape Dory boats, negative personal comments are not permitted. Disagree with statements if you must, but don't attack other members of our community."

[rtbates]

Use whatever means you have at your disposal to get it out. A cheap drill driven pump will work. I'm sure you got a few answers already. The big and most important question is what to do about an automatic bilge pump.
Here's my answer after 25 years of dealing with bilge pumps. First don't even consider a self contained drop in the bilge unit. They a centrifugal pumps that stop working if two hairs fall in the bilge. They are worse than nothing because you'll falsely think you're protected. I have a RULE 500 you can have.
All you Rule guys can start typing now.
Here's what you should consider.
Get a Diaphragm bilge pump. They'll pass small debris and keep pumping. Get a separate electronic bilge switch. The best ones use a metal probe that senses water and turns on the pump, BUT oil and or diesel will NOT. Get a pickup with a built in check valve. Wire with 10-12 ga wire. Get a manual/auto fused switch assembly. Mount the pump in a locker above the waterline.
It's expensive I know but how much will a sunk boat run you?

Best of luck

Randy 25D Seraph #161

[ricks]

Dear All:

I had thought that this was, more or less, a serious site until I read the dribble posted here.

If the original poster doesn't know how to get the water out of his bilge when his boat is on dry land, he shouldn't ever be on the water. Worse, are those who responded to this stupidity.

Get real or get off this site.

The name says it all...

[winthrop fisher]

Hey...

that was just to get the water out for him, it is on dry land, right.

if you want to talk pumps the best pump on the market is the water puppy by jasco it can pump water, oil, gas, and you can fix it.
its all so used for changing the oil in your motor, cars or boats.

hows that one for you.
winthrop

Use whatever means you have at your disposal to get it out. A cheap drill driven pump will work. I'm sure you got a few answers already. The big and most important question is what to do about an automatic bilge pump.
Here's my answer after 25 years of dealing with bilge pumps. First don't even consider a self contained drop in the bilge unit. They a centrifugal pumps that stop working if two hairs fall in the bilge. They are worse than nothing because you'll falsely think you're protected. I have a RULE 500 you can have.
All you Rule guys can start typing now.
Here's what you should consider.
Get a Diaphragm bilge pump. They'll pass small debris and keep pumping. Get a separate electronic bilge switch. The best ones use a metal probe that senses water and turns on the pump, BUT oil and or diesel will NOT. Get a pickup with a built in check valve. Wire with 10-12 ga wire. Get a manual/auto fused switch assembly. Mount the pump in a locker above the waterline.
It's expensive I know but how much will a sunk boat run you?

Best of luck

Randy 25D Seraph #161

[Guest]

In the spirit of the good fellow who posted this bilge query, I'd like to offer that it's a good question after all. When I bought a CD25, I spent days (DAYS) looking for access to the bilge before I finally found the little cabin hatch. After figuring that out, I spent more time scratching my head about the location of the existing pump intake, as it was not visible and there was no way to get at it. A design flaw, perhaps? And the manual didn't help a whit.

So ask away, good man, and to hooey with the bitter curmudgeon who's likely stymied in his quest for any company on the water, and can't fathom why.

At what point does a lusty old salt become a curmudgeon? Is there a tipping point, a moment of crossover, a hoary revelation?