[Rhodes22-list] Water in bilge from line w/o check valve?

[Alan Robertson]

We also have a thru hull for the sink which we plugged from the outside. Our factory-installed Ruhl bilge pump is routed under the sink and out through a hole into the cockpit. Hole is through bulkhead and located under starboard side cockpit seat. We never use it since we never get enough water in the bilge to turn it on automatically. Rather, I cut out a 5" square piece from the cabin floor board, this right next to forward bulkhead ;I tapered the cut out square so it would fit back in the hole to cover up and so carpeting does not get wet. We use sponges and scoop( small flour scoop) to swab out bilge and dump into small bucket which when full gets dumped back into where it came from. 
If cabin seat drains next to the lazarette cover can't handle a downpour, overflow slops into lazarette and finds its way into the bilge via the bottom hole though the forward lazarette wall. This is where most of our bilgewater comes from.

Alan & Barbara Robertson

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mary Lou Troy<mailto:mtroy at atlanticbb.net> 
  To: The Rhodes 22 Email List<mailto:rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> 
  Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 5:01 PM
  Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Water in bilge from line w/o check valve?


  Greg,
  What thru hull are you talking about? The sink? We don't have a bilge 
  pump so I'm only guessing.. If you feel the bilge pump is necessary, 
  can you route it into the sink?

  Best,
  Mary Lou
  1991 R22 Fretless
  Rock Hall, MD



  At 03:25 PM 9/6/2010, you wrote:

  >I have gotten water in the bilge since I got the boat. I ruled out rain, and
  >always thought the CB cap was the problem. After Earl I think I found the
  >problem. I am at a mooring in the Upper Chesapeake and get a ton of rocking.
  >I don't have a check valve in my bilge and think that might be the cause.
  >The boat rocks and when the through hull goes underwater it sends it back to
  >the bilge. This taxes the battery and eventually kills it, then the bilge
  >fills with water and the lower it sits compounds the problem.
  >Does everyone have a check valve for the bilge?
  >
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  >Greg PA
  >s/v SERENITY
  >79 Rhodes 22
  >North East MD
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