There's several gallons of sea water in my aluminum bayrunner and I
can't figure out how to get it out. When I'm in the water on full
throttle the boat doesn't tilt enough to push all the water to the back
where the bilge pump is located.

Even on the trailer with it fully tilted up on the boat ramp I can't
empty it out. It's not flooded but there's several gallons and I'd
like to get it out. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I'm
guessing that the salt water sitting around for weeks isn't good for
the aluminum hull.

Wet/dry shop vac works well for me to get those last drops :-)

-al-


On 16 Oct 2005 22:13:52 -0700, wrote:

There's several gallons of sea water in my aluminum bayrunner and I
can't figure out how to get it out. When I'm in the water on full
throttle the boat doesn't tilt enough to push all the water to the back
where the bilge pump is located.

Even on the trailer with it fully tilted up on the boat ramp I can't
empty it out. It's not flooded but there's several gallons and I'd
like to get it out. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I'm
guessing that the salt water sitting around for weeks isn't good for
the aluminum hull.

And a Mark 1, Mod 0 bucket for the rest!
"Al Thomason" wrote in message
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Wet/dry shop vac works well for me to get those last drops :-)

-al-


On 16 Oct 2005 22:13:52 -0700, wrote:

There's several gallons of sea water in my aluminum bayrunner and I
can't figure out how to get it out. When I'm in the water on full
throttle the boat doesn't tilt enough to push all the water to the back
where the bilge pump is located.

Even on the trailer with it fully tilted up on the boat ramp I can't
empty it out. It's not flooded but there's several gallons and I'd
like to get it out. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I'm
guessing that the salt water sitting around for weeks isn't good for
the aluminum hull.

wrote:

There's several gallons of sea water in my aluminum bayrunner and I
can't figure out how to get it out. When I'm in the water on full
throttle the boat doesn't tilt enough to push all the water to the back
where the bilge pump is located.

Even on the trailer with it fully tilted up on the boat ramp I can't
empty it out. It's not flooded but there's several gallons and I'd
like to get it out. Does anyone have any suggestions?

A shop vac or dinghy bailer (manual pump), a bucket, a big sponge and
some manual labor.

Even if the bilge pump could get rid of most of it, bilge pumps can't
get all the water...some runs back down the hose when the pump shuts off
that should always be pumped out/mopped up each time you put the boat
away. If you don't, it'll sit and stagnate into a stinky "primordial
soup" in your bilge.

--
Peggie
----------
Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://www.seaworthy.com/store/custo...0&cat=6&page=1
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/detai...=400&group=327

Peggie Hall wrote:
wrote:

There's several gallons of sea water in my aluminum bayrunner and I
can't figure out how to get it out. When I'm in the water on full
throttle the boat doesn't tilt enough to push all the water to the back
where the bilge pump is located.

Even on the trailer with it fully tilted up on the boat ramp I can't
empty it out. It's not flooded but there's several gallons and I'd
like to get it out. Does anyone have any suggestions?


A shop vac or dinghy bailer (manual pump), a bucket, a big sponge and
some manual labor.

Even if the bilge pump could get rid of most of it, bilge pumps can't
get all the water...some runs back down the hose when the pump shuts off
that should always be pumped out/mopped up each time you put the boat
away. If you don't, it'll sit and stagnate into a stinky "primordial
soup" in your bilge.

Am I missing something here? My Bilge is self-Draining when the boat is
out of the water.

R.

I think people are naturally assuming it is a much more difficult problem
that getting water out of an open boat (as your original post indicates)
since you wrote and asked advice.

"Rick" wrote in message
...
Peggie Hall wrote:
wrote:

There's several gallons of sea water in my aluminum bayrunner and I
can't figure out how to get it out. When I'm in the water on full
throttle the boat doesn't tilt enough to push all the water to the back
where the bilge pump is located.

Even on the trailer with it fully tilted up on the boat ramp I can't
empty it out. It's not flooded but there's several gallons and I'd
like to get it out. Does anyone have any suggestions?


A shop vac or dinghy bailer (manual pump), a bucket, a big sponge and
some manual labor.

Even if the bilge pump could get rid of most of it, bilge pumps can't
get all the water...some runs back down the hose when the pump shuts off
that should always be pumped out/mopped up each time you put the boat
away. If you don't, it'll sit and stagnate into a stinky "primordial
soup" in your bilge.

Am I missing something here? My Bilge is self-Draining when the boat is
out of the water.

R.

MMC wrote:

I think people are naturally assuming it is a much more difficult problem
that getting water out of an open boat (as your original post indicates)
since you wrote and asked advice.

"Rick" wrote in message
...

Peggie Hall wrote:

wrote:


There's several gallons of sea water in my aluminum bayrunner and I
can't figure out how to get it out. When I'm in the water on full
throttle the boat doesn't tilt enough to push all the water to the back
where the bilge pump is located.

Even on the trailer with it fully tilted up on the boat ramp I can't
empty it out. It's not flooded but there's several gallons and I'd
like to get it out. Does anyone have any suggestions?


A shop vac or dinghy bailer (manual pump), a bucket, a big sponge and
some manual labor.

Even if the bilge pump could get rid of most of it, bilge pumps can't
get all the water...some runs back down the hose when the pump shuts off
that should always be pumped out/mopped up each time you put the boat
away. If you don't, it'll sit and stagnate into a stinky "primordial
soup" in your bilge.


Am I missing something here? My Bilge is self-Draining when the boat is
out of the water.

R.


Mine drains well with the plug out too, except that the engine bilge
limber hole is plugged to contain dripping oil and stop it moving to
the bilge under the cabin.

So the cabin bilge doesn't drain that way, not that it would because
it's up hill from the cabin bilge to the prop and engine compartment
bilge.

So I occasionally need to pump a gallon or two of what can only be
condensation and elusive overhead drips accumulated under the cabin,
which is not enough to start the main bilge pump until the water is
an inch or more deep in the cabin, as the main bilge is only an inch
deep and wraps closely under the concave cabin sole. Our cabin sole
is like a submarine's in that no matter how the boat rocks and
rolls, you always can stand in the bottom of the boat, like it was a
sewer pipe, or submarine. The engine compartment bilge gets pumped
by hand into a pop bottle for oil seperation from packing box drips
and recycling, as every day of moderate engine use, it drips half a
liter of oil from I can't figure out where. It's an atomic two, any
experience out there?

With the engine apart in the cabin now, hopefully by spring it will
no longer leak oil, and then I can re-open the limber hole and pump
clean prop shaft drips normally, but by hand, as the automatic bilge
pump will never get that last gallon. That we get with a manual
suction line snuck down under the lowest point under the cabin.

Every boat's got it's own personality, eh?

Terry K

"Every boat's got it's own personality, eh?"
Very true!
Do you have enough access around your engine to clean off the oil and
inspect with a inspection mirror?
Worked for my when my timing gear cover gasket was leaking.
MMC

"Terry Spragg" wrote in message
...
MMC wrote:

I think people are naturally assuming it is a much more difficult
problem
that getting water out of an open boat (as your original post indicates)
since you wrote and asked advice.

"Rick" wrote in message
...

Peggie Hall wrote:

wrote:


There's several gallons of sea water in my aluminum bayrunner and I
can't figure out how to get it out. When I'm in the water on full
throttle the boat doesn't tilt enough to push all the water to the
back
where the bilge pump is located.

Even on the trailer with it fully tilted up on the boat ramp I can't
empty it out. It's not flooded but there's several gallons and I'd
like to get it out. Does anyone have any suggestions?


A shop vac or dinghy bailer (manual pump), a bucket, a big sponge and
some manual labor.

Even if the bilge pump could get rid of most of it, bilge pumps can't
get all the water...some runs back down the hose when the pump shuts
off
that should always be pumped out/mopped up each time you put the boat
away. If you don't, it'll sit and stagnate into a stinky "primordial
soup" in your bilge.


Am I missing something here? My Bilge is self-Draining when the boat is
out of the water.

R.


Mine drains well with the plug out too, except that the engine bilge
limber hole is plugged to contain dripping oil and stop it moving to
the bilge under the cabin.

So the cabin bilge doesn't drain that way, not that it would because
it's up hill from the cabin bilge to the prop and engine compartment
bilge.

So I occasionally need to pump a gallon or two of what can only be
condensation and elusive overhead drips accumulated under the cabin,
which is not enough to start the main bilge pump until the water is
an inch or more deep in the cabin, as the main bilge is only an inch
deep and wraps closely under the concave cabin sole. Our cabin sole
is like a submarine's in that no matter how the boat rocks and
rolls, you always can stand in the bottom of the boat, like it was a
sewer pipe, or submarine. The engine compartment bilge gets pumped
by hand into a pop bottle for oil seperation from packing box drips
and recycling, as every day of moderate engine use, it drips half a
liter of oil from I can't figure out where. It's an atomic two, any
experience out there?

With the engine apart in the cabin now, hopefully by spring it will
no longer leak oil, and then I can re-open the limber hole and pump
clean prop shaft drips normally, but by hand, as the automatic bilge
pump will never get that last gallon. That we get with a manual
suction line snuck down under the lowest point under the cabin.

Every boat's got it's own personality, eh?

Terry K

On 16 Oct 2005 22:13:52 -0700, wrote:

There's several gallons of sea water in my aluminum bayrunner and I
can't figure out how to get it out. When I'm in the water on full
throttle the boat doesn't tilt enough to push all the water to the back
where the bilge pump is located.

Even on the trailer with it fully tilted up on the boat ramp I can't
empty it out. It's not flooded but there's several gallons and I'd
like to get it out. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I'm
guessing that the salt water sitting around for weeks isn't good for
the aluminum hull.

Buy yourself a small bilge pump, they are pretty cheap, and install it
in the lowest part of the bilge.

If possible, it would be a good thing to encourage air flow threw the
bilge, also. Even if, you only open it up when it is on the trailer.
Your boat cover should have a vent in the front and a vent in the rear
to facilitate air movement. You could encourage more air movement by
having a fan blow throught there. Just plug it in to a timer and have
it come on during what is most often the driest, warmest part of the
day.

Sounds like your problem is probably long-term so I'd first recommend a
permanent installation of a bilge pump in the lowest portion of the hull and
make sure that other chambers that flood are all limbered to it properly.
But for temporary use not that you can buy an electric-drill powered water
pump also. Our local hardware store carries them and they are cheap. Just
stick one hose in the water and the other hose where you want the water to
go, put the drive shaft in your drill's chuck and off you go.

Brian D



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On 16 Oct 2005 22:13:52 -0700, wrote:

There's several gallons of sea water in my aluminum bayrunner and I
can't figure out how to get it out. When I'm in the water on full
throttle the boat doesn't tilt enough to push all the water to the back
where the bilge pump is located.

Even on the trailer with it fully tilted up on the boat ramp I can't
empty it out. It's not flooded but there's several gallons and I'd
like to get it out. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, I'm
guessing that the salt water sitting around for weeks isn't good for
the aluminum hull.

Buy yourself a small bilge pump, they are pretty cheap, and install it
in the lowest part of the bilge.

If possible, it would be a good thing to encourage air flow threw the
bilge, also. Even if, you only open it up when it is on the trailer.
Your boat cover should have a vent in the front and a vent in the rear
to facilitate air movement. You could encourage more air movement by
having a fan blow throught there. Just plug it in to a timer and have
it come on during what is most often the driest, warmest part of the
day.