Bilges
MILANO BLANCO
James Blackburn
Tue 21 Jul 2009 11:00
21 July 2009 44:08:05N 025:33:45 James: Windy, big waves, cold night. A lot of water over the
foredeck, and it was getting below into the bilges which weren’t pumping
out automatically. We left it too long without switching the pump on, and water
was sloshing about up the inside of the bilge, and coming back over the cabin
sole (floorboards) and the slowly draining back into the bilge. Robbie slept
through all the sloshing, then alerted us and we bailed into the sink and then
pumped the rest out. It seems the pump’s electrical connections were wet
and only when we lowered the water level by bailing did the bilge pump start
working again. Lessons learned! The weather had calmed down by morning. |