Do you close your seacock?

[dwna1a]

How often should those hoses be replaced?

If you look at your hoses and say, I just don’t trust that hose. Or see a drip. Replace the hose!

A added warning tho. Many times we have talked here about old hoses that can collapse on the inside. So be thinking about those issues as well

I redid my GenSet’s this past winter and my engines exhaust hoses last year. Those were collapsing on the inside.

 

[Stee6043]

I did some math last year on potential GPH entering the boat from a 1.5" hole in your bilge located 4' below the surface of the water. I wanna say the math suggested that a total of 5000GPH of pump capacity would not keep up with the water coming in.

A quick google search suggests that a typical garden hose will flow at around 800GPH, call it 1,000GPH on the high end. I don't think it's unreasonable to imagine a 1.5" hole in the boat pushing 5X the volume of a garden hose? Either way, time to beef up those pumps! I guess I'd also wonder what the mean time to failure is for your typical Rule pump. Will they run for an hour, 8 hours, a full day before giving up the ghost? I doubt they'd run an entire week but who knows.

That said, I've never closed my seacocks when I leave the boat.

 

[Morgan Jane]

I think the logical answer to all of this is to have a system in place that when a failure occurs, 2 things have to happen, first is your bilge pumps working properly, but secondly, you got to be notified somehow, someway. That’s the key, not if it happens? It’s when it happens, will you know? So you can tend to it or get someone to attend to it. I use a GOVEE wi-fi water sensor. I put them where water should never, ever be. The second a half a drop of water touches a sensor, I get a text message.

 

[bobeast]

I got notified by an over-heated engine this past weekend. I limped back to my slip on one engine, then opened the bilge hatch. My bilge pump was going and I noticed a steady stream of water coming out of the raw water pump.

Needless to say, I am now a believer in closing the seacocks. No amount of 'good maintenance' can absolutely prevent this sort of thing. Sometimes things just break.

 

[firecadet613]

I think the logical answer to all of this is to have a system in place that when a failure occurs, 2 things have to happen, first is your bilge pumps are working properly, but secondly, you got to be notified somehow, someway. That’s the key, not if it happens? It’s when it happens, will you know? So you can tend to it or get someone to attend to it. I use a GOVEE wi-fi water sensor. I put them where water should never, ever be. The second a half a drop of water touches a sensor, I get a text message.

Those look amazing. I was tempted to put a camera in the bilge, but no wifi cameras are safe to put there. This looks like just the ticket!

 

[Doc O Rock]

How often should those hoses be replaced?

Sorry to Hi-Jack the thread but that is a great-looking davit system. How much if you don't mind?

 

[Skip Boyer]

A/C and genset stay open. We live aboard. Mains closed unless engines are running. Made up this placard that physically prevents engine start switches from being activated. Keys are in engine room hanging on the strainers. Just to many variables to leave to chance.

 

[Skip Boyer]

 

[Joint Custody]

One of our slip neighbor left the city water turned on and left the boat.
We where there for four days after they left. I noticed the 3rd day that the boat was low in the slip.
Got on the boat and the cabin was full of 3ft of water also engine room completely full of water and over the top of the engines.
When all was pumped out it was the water inlet hose to the head had broke.

This was a caver 40ft aft cabin... lots of room so you can imagine how much water that was in three days.

Remember to turn off fresh water pumps and your fresh water to the boat.

 

[mrsrobinson]

I know I should have, but I never did, except to winterize.

 

[mrsrobinson]

One of our slip neighbor left the city water turned on and left the boat.
We where there for four days after they left. I noticed the 3rd day that the boat was low in the slip.
Got on the boat and the cabin was full of 3ft of water also engine room completely full of water and over the top of the engines.
When all was pumped out it was the water inlet hose to the head had broke.

This was a caver 40ft aft cabin... lots of room so you can imagine how much water that was in three days.

Remember to turn off fresh water pumps and your fresh water to the boat.

Geez, that is horrible. Rarely used the dock water hook up (only on overnight trips to another marina maybe) and when I did I left the pressure low and always turned it off when we left the boat.