Skipper wrote in
:

I have a pump that reaches down into the deep bilge with a suction
hose. My main bilge pumps are pretty easy to get to.



Because Lionheart, an Amel Sharki ketch, has all its drains going into the
bilge, not overboard, she came with a quite-large, self-priming electric
diaphram bilge pump. But, alas, before we got it, noone lubed its bearings
so they were all destroyed. The motor bearings were so worn the rotor was
locked to the stator. I suppose your pump is like that. Man those things
are expensive!