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• High water alarm and bilge pump counter recomendations
  • Wow! I'd like to see a picture of that clamp
    • How about these....
      • I got nervous reading Compass Marine and others
        • There are self almalating tape that works well on as emergency fixes
  • Search the web for Water Witch bilge alarm/counter
  • I have Borel
    • Link to Borel
  • Dual Approach - Counter and Alarm
    • "Lucky to be there when a big one let go..."
      • I think it's a practice that is admirable -- but answer: No, I don't
        • admirable, hell, I do it out of fear.
  • Irony
  • If you use a counter, be careful which automatic pump you get
    • If you pump cycles that often?
      • The pumps he is describing work that way
        • Rule makes them...
          • I feel so inadequate
            • It is in a 78 year old wooden boat
            • I know the feeling... I only have a manual pump.
          • Hope they're fused separately.
            • Each pump is fused..
        • On quiet nights it's...
  • Did you have double hose clamps on the hoses?
    • Hose was not below the water line...only one clamp
      • Then how did water flood in?
        • Hose was nit supported and fell down
          • I'm still confused - the thruhull was below the waterline but the hose was not?
            • I thought Jeremy was speaking of the top side of a sink drain