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Old 03-24-2012, 08:30 AM
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Dunno if any of the three choices really accurately describe my sitcheeayshun, but I picked number 3 - it's about as wet as I would expect, which is "not very".

Normally, it's very close to "bone dry." I still have some cabin roof leaks, so when we get a bunch of rain, I'll find a small puddle down in there. Right now, the hose from the hot section to the old Vetus doesn't fit the Vetus intake quite right, so it spits a little bit of water when the engine is running - a condition I will fix eventually. So that ends up in the bilge, making it wetter than it normally would be otherwise.

The stuffing box doesn't leak at all.

So I'll go with "as wet as I would expect."

The previous owner didn't have an automatic bilge pump in the boat. He had it that way for the eight years he owned it. Even the old Par pump that was in there rarely ever saw any use. I have put a brand new Rule automatic bilge pump in there, and unless I've been motoring for a while (which spits water into the bilge as explained above), it never gets any use either.
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