exception of an exploding battery, if I can't get an electric bilge pump to work then maybe I should be in a motor home instead. Seriously, electric bilge pumps are about as easy to rig as it gets. If my boat is so disabled that I can't get bilge pumps to work somehow AND, my generator won't work to boot, then I've got some really big issues to deal with and sitting in the cockpit pumping on a manual bilge pump would be just pissing in the wind and wasting time. Onec again, just MHO.