"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
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A frightened man with a bucket will beat any electric pump hands down.

No ****, during a torrential downpour earlier this year I cleared a good
three feet of water from the well of our basement stairway in what must've
been RECORD time. Five gallons at a time and facing water damage to a lot
of furniture really motivates you to BAIL FAST. But in most boats you've
got nowhere near the room needed to get good clearance to scoop and get it
out of the vessel quickly enough.


Like the saying goes, "The heart is willing but the fetch is weak." Or
something like that... ;-)