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Yankee · 08-07-2010, 06:49 AM

I keep a spare drain plug in my tool kit. I'm not concerned about it coming loose and falling out. But I've made the mistake of not checking it ahead of time and getting to the boat launch only to find out that there's no drain plug installed.

I also have a manual bilge pump. Again, I learned from an experience with a leaky outdrive bellows that bilge pumps will only keep up as long as the batteries have juice, and when you need to get water out immediatley, one of these http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...Number=2845410 is the only way to go. They're inexpensive.

08-07-2010, 06:49 AM	#39
Yankee Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 150 Thanks: 19 Thanked 38 Times in 23 Posts	I keep a spare drain plug in my tool kit. I'm not concerned about it coming loose and falling out. But I've made the mistake of not checking it ahead of time and getting to the boat launch only to find out that there's no drain plug installed. I also have a manual bilge pump. Again, I learned from an experience with a leaky outdrive bellows that bilge pumps will only keep up as long as the batteries have juice, and when you need to get water out immediatley, one of these http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...Number=2845410 is the only way to go. They're inexpensive. __________________ __________________ __________________ So what have we learned in the past two thousand years? "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of Obamunism should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest the Republic become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." . . .Evidently nothing. (Cicero, 55 BC augmented by me, 2010 AD)