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

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Alan,
Just curious, but why did you plug the sink drain?
 
Rummy
 
 
In a message dated 9/6/2010 10:43:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
bigal_61 at msn.com writes:

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> 
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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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>79 Rhodes 22
>North  East MD
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