[Rhodes22-list] Bill's Bilge Pump Puzzle

[John Lock]

At 09:41 AM 8/23/2007 -0700, john Belanger wrote:
>why do you have to get it over the transom? why not just over the 
>side? mine is a push-pull but the tube i bought at lowes is only 3' long.

The tube is just long enough to get over the transom.  But once you 
start pumping, the thrust of the exiting water pushes the tube back 
into the lazz.  I don't have enough hands to hold the pump down, hold 
the tube out, AND work the pump handle.  But replacing it with a 6' 
hose from an old shop vac gave it plenty of reach for two-handed operation.

>   p.s. looked up pandion on wiki. which one is yours?

The Osprey (Pandion haliaetus).

Cheers!

John Lock
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s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
Lake Sinclair, GA
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