<< Additionally you can put a small gel cell battery in a plastic 20mm ammo
case and run the wires to a large high volume electric bilge pump mounted to
the bilge. The small battery would give enough juice for an emergency high
volume bailing episode.
Jim Nolan P-19 #452 P-15 #1055
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I hope you mean a plastic ammo case. A metal one would probably short the
battery dead. In salt water the batteries have a tendency to short dead
immediately after getting dunked. Which would make a bilge pump inoperable.
They sell a small 360 GPM - C battery operated bilge pump that would probably
survive under water until needed... Supposedly works for four hours on C
cells or is it D cells?
Which points to a simple solution... Keep the hatch closed! in any conditions
in which you feel a capsize may occur.
Best
Solar Fry
P19 # 1028, "Elusive Margin"
Pompano Beach, FL
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