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On Oct 8, 3:08 pm, Paul Cassel
wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
A
friend of mine was taking a boat across the Gulf of mexico from N. Fl
to Sarasota. Somehow the anti-siphon loop got clogged and it back-
siphoned filling the boat with water. By the time anybody down below
woke up, the cabin sole was awash and they had to call the CG to bring
them a pump.


You know folks who do blue water sailing without a bilge pump?


With that much water, a bilge pump would have been slow.