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In the end, not much will save you if the 'hole' is beyond an inch or so. 
In Response To: Yes, definately an alarm. When things are going ()
() When our boat sunk(grounding) due to an opening, say equivalent to 2-3", one of these wouldn't have kept us afloat.
Our Coast Guard loaned us one of these gas emergency pumps for our 6 mile run to a travelift. But if our temporary patch-repair let go, that loaner emergency pump would have gone down with our boat, for a second time. The ingress pressure and flow from below the waterline is alarming.
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- Battery selector switch idea.
- Safety switch?
- Can you relocate your switch?
- As Brian and others have suggested, proper disconnect is really the way to go.
- I must be missing something?
- You had a disconnect 1-both-2 or off?
- You should, beyond a fuse, be able to kill the power delivered from the batteries to ALL devices downstream
- SG thank you for your input
- All devices... what about bilge pump?
- A fuse that is above the cockpit sole would be a good idea.
- Gene, I would install a switch and a fuse
- Alarm and counter too...
- Yes, definately an alarm. When things are going
- In the end, not much will save you if the 'hole' is beyond an inch or so.
- In the end, not much will save you if the 'hole' is beyond an inch or so.
- I look at a counter as a necessity
- Yes, definately an alarm. When things are going
- Alarm and counter too...
- You had a disconnect 1-both-2 or off?
- boat is a Coast 34
- I must be missing something?
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