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| Psychinurse |
Posted - 26 Sep 2017 : 20:58:27
Hi I recently bought a Norman conquest boat. I wondered if anyone knows where to bilge pump. |
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| cliveshep |
Posted - 28 Sep 2017 : 04:57:44
Get an "in-line" bilge pump, the sort that has a pipe on the inlet as well as the outlet, poke the inlet hose down your cabin berth locker under the berth/floor moulding where there is generally enough gap to get the pipe right down to the lowest part of the hull under the cabin floor.
Get a hull skin fitting, drill the hull under the berth top approximately 75mm down from the berth underside and connect the pump outlet to that. The skin fitting has to be above waterline of course. Fix your bilge pipe so that it is tight under the berth top and runs down to the skin fitting or water might get back in. An Angled skin fitting will assist this - see below link.
Normally on a Norman you'll install on the port berth and run the cable back to a switch at the helm position, that being where most of your electrics are concentrated.
However, be warned, you'll be paying around £120 upwards for such a beast.
If that deters you, cut an access hole approximately 15cm (6 inches) square in the centre of the cabin floor just back from the end of the berth/floor moulding, Bolt a mitred aluminium carpet trim around the cut out piece so it can be dropped back over the hole. Bolting those plastic KD furniture blocks, one to each edge underneath with the trim will stop the little hatch from sliding over and falling in.
http://www.diy.com/search?Ntt=aluminium+strips
http://www.diy.com/search?Ntt=KD+chipboard++joint+blocks
Use only stainless steel screws and nuts or the damp will rust anything else. Probably c/sunk M4 x 25, don't think Screwfix do these small sizes any more, you'll need a fixings place or boatyard.
A secondary advantage of this method is you can get an arm down to sponge out and disinfect the bilge which by design was never accessible, and also recover the previous owner's spanners, screwdrivers, small change, mobile phones etc that slid down never to be seen again until now.
Then a conventional cheapo bilge pump can be fitted, running the hose back out to the skin fitting as described above by pushing through the gap between berth moulding and hull.
As these here, mail order, not more than £23. Make sure you order 12 volt and also a 2m length of 19mm hose and a skin fitting.
https://www.asap-supplies.com/pumps/bilge-pumps/submersible-bilge-pumps
https://www.asap-supplies.com/fittings-valves-strainers/fittings/through-hull-skin-fittings/through-hull-plastic-hose-skin-fitting-403733
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| df |
Posted - 27 Sep 2017 : 21:57:33
They often tend to sit nose down so the water collects in the front of the bilge, most put a pump at the stern but thats not always the best place.
I need to move one of mine from the stern to the bottom of the engine bay for that very reason, one day I might get round to it.......
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| Sonny |
Posted - 27 Sep 2017 : 20:50:25
The lowest point you can access#128522; |
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