Bart Senior wrote:
Correct. This is the most important reason. 1 point to you.

If they had hand pumped the bilge they would have saved
their batteries, and been aware of the problem early on.

Why is it a good idea to hand pump your bilge every day when sailing on
the ocean? [1 pt]

It's one way to detect any changes in the amount of water in your bilge.

I'm not a real sailor but I would like to be
someday......................... So you are telling me that nobody does
an hourly visual look to the bilge to see what lurking down there? I
guess that is probably to nast of a job for real saliors.

Here is a question I will give 10 points to anybody who knows the
correct answe

"Columbus discovered America in __________________."

Go to it .