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Anchor locker drainage
- Petemait
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Anchor locker drainage
The anchor and rode lockers at the bow drain directly into the bilge. A hose runs from the bottom connector and dumps right by the forward bilge pump. When there is a good rain storm, this locker catches a decent amount of water.
Does anyone know if this locker should just drain into the bilge as it is now, or should it be going to a through hull fitting overboard?
I guess it's not incredibly important either way but it is nice to have a dry bilge.
Would appreciate anyone's thoughts.
While I'm at it, i also noticed today that this forward bilge pump, pumps the water out slightly below the water line. I feel like this may be wrong?
Thank you,
1983 Riviera 2807
Boston, MA
- km1125
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Re: Anchor locker drainage
Also, any through-hull that exits below the waterline (or even real close to it) should have a sea valve on it. Most bilge pump discharges are usually SEVERAL inches over the waterline, up to a foot. The ones that exit less than a foot should also have a loop in the discharge hose that goes up much higher before it drops down to the discharge.
You could re-route that anchor locker drain line to a through-hull, but the discharge should have some type of a clamshell over it so that water doesn't get pushed back in there when you're bashing waves.
- Petemait
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Re: Anchor locker drainage
Thank you for your response. I am still new to the boat and was shocked to see the pump going to a below waterline through hull. That just moved to the top of the list of things to fix.
As far as the anchor locker drain, i may have to add a thru hull fitting.
Thanks again for your help.
1983 Riviera 2807
Boston, MA
- bud37
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Re: Anchor locker drainage
Petemait wrote:Source of the post km1125,
Thank you for your response. I am still new to the boat and was shocked to see the pump going to a below waterline through hull. That just moved to the top of the list of things to fix.
As far as the anchor locker drain, i may have to add a thru hull fitting.
Thanks again for your help.
I am curious....is the pump discharge on the hull side on the boot stripe or just barely above the stripe ?
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Re: Anchor locker drainage
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Re: Anchor locker drainage
the white one seems a bit oddly placed too?
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Re: Anchor locker drainage
I wonder if the black one is actually submerged when the boat is in the water. Hard to tell from the angle of the pic, but it seems like that's a part of the hull that starts sweeping up to the bow and that the waterline is a few inches below that even though the bottom paint goes up higher.
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Re: Anchor locker drainage
- Petemait
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Re: Anchor locker drainage
Believe it or not, the hose was directly hose clamped to the plastic through hull fitting. There was no nut on the inside so it was only the sealant holding the fitting in place. One of a few scary things i have found from previous owners.
Thanks again,
1983 Riviera 2807
Boston, MA
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