We might have covered this once before, however,
it is worth repeating. After someone answers it
correctly, I'll tell you a real world story relating
to it.

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

On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 23:41:42 -0500, "Bart Senior"
wrote:

We might have covered this once before, however,
it is worth repeating. After someone answers it
correctly, I'll tell you a real world story relating
to it.

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



Depending on the source of power for your electric pump it can reduce
the strain on your battery bank and save recharge fuel.

It keeps the diaphragm in the pump flexed and ascertains that it is
primed and working properly.

I'd rather have a dry bilge while sailing the ocean Bart.


If you're sailing one of Ozes boats it would be wise to hand pump the
bilge just to make sure the keel hasent started failing ;0)

Joe

On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 23:41:42 -0500, Bart Senior wrote:

We might have covered this once before, however, it is worth repeating.
After someone answers it correctly, I'll tell you a real world story
relating to it.

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 the bilge.

True. With a Bavaria, I'd check the bilge constantly.

"Joe" wrote
If you're sailing one of Ozes boats it would be wise to hand pump the
bilge just to make sure the keel hasn't started failing ;0)

Correct. This is the most important reason. 1 point to you.

A fellow I know was moving his boat south last fall. He had
had a hard grounding last season, and during the passage
south the keel started working back and forth. The electric
bilge pump kept up with it, but when the power failed
during the last two days of the trip, it required 100 pumps
an hour to keep it dry.

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

"thunder" wrote
Bart Senior wrote:

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 the bilge.

It was not the answer I was looking for, but it's a good answer
Frank.worth 1 point. Thanks.

"Frank Boettcher" wrote

"Bart Senior" wrote:

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

Depending on the source of power for your electric pump it can reduce
the strain on your battery bank and save recharge fuel.

It keeps the diaphragm in the pump flexed and ascertains that it is
primed and working properly.

Why do people still think external keels are safer?

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 .

First of all, "Bob" is a bad luck name around here. Might
want to change it.

Bob wrote:
I'm not a real sailor but I would like to be
someday.........................

DEfine "real"

... So you are telling me that nobody does
an hourly visual look to the bilge to see what lurking down there?

I dunno about hourly, that seems excessive. Daily would
probably do it. And noted in the log.

... I
guess that is probably to nast of a job for real saliors.


Why would it be a "nast" job? Is the bilge dirty?
If so, clean it! It's a boat not a stable yard.

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

"Columbus discovered America in __________________."


Columbus didn't discover America. For one thing, it wasn't
named that, for another, Columbus thought he was in China,
for yet another, he "discovered" a small island in the
Caribbean (nobody knows exactly which one), for yet another
the Vikings & the Irish had been to North America long before.

Counting the hours until I can get back to work on the boat

Fresh Breezes- Doug King