I tried to search through mods and past posts but wasn't able to find quite what I needed.
On our "new to us" 2005
I'm eager to install 1 or more automatic bilge pumps. I consider this an essential safety item and can't imagine sailing without it. I haven't found mention of the best places to place bilge pumps on the 26M, so thought I would ask the many experts. It doesn't appear to me that the many low places where water could collect are connected, so multiple pumps might be in order.Proper wiring is typically fused but non-switched (allowing the float switch to switch pumps on automatically regardless of human error); the panel switch serves as a manual override to turn the pumps on regardless of the float switch position.
Your thoughts?
Curious item:
Although we haven't had the boat in the water yet, I've used a wet/dry shop vac to pull a LOT of water out of the bilges (two 5 gallon buckets!). Water was mainly in the battery box (which is missing the cover) and rear berth. I assume this location is a function of how the boat is sitting on the trailer. Can't tell if the water came from from someone letting the boat sit open in the rain, leakage from decks, or last time it was afloat. Oddly, there appear to be zero mold issues and the water is fairly clean, so my gut instinct is that the water hasn't been in there long, even though our boat had been sitting for some years. This is just a related curiosity I thought worth mentioning. We are getting the inside dried and cleaned out before we spray the deck and fill the water ballast to check for leaks.
