Water Pump Noise Reduction

[moseriw]

Originally Posted by SailingPNW

Check out the Marco Pumps made by Mate, they are costly but run much more silently. They are a variable speed pump you would need to eliminate the accumulator. While I don't have one was on a sailboat with one and it was almost silent.

Uaargh please be careful with Marco.. Mine, a 400 $ thing, is not even capable of self priming (against the TechDoc). The pump is BELOW the tank and has to be primed manually.

If that is not crazy - what else?

The next pump I will have is a cheap 40 $ submersible pump.

[Uncle Bob]

Originally Posted by Simi 60

You could get that carried away.
I simply mounted mine to a bit of 1/2inch ply and sandwiched an old thong between it and the boat


Always find at least one washed up on a beach

[SailingPNW]

Originally Posted by moseriw

Uaargh please be careful with Marco.. Mine, a 400 $ thing, is not even capable of self priming (against the TechDoc). The pump is BELOW the tank and has to be primed manually.

If that is not crazy - what else?

The next pump I will have is a cheap 40 $ submersible pump.

They can be more finicky if you run the tanks dry, they have a bleeder to manually bleed the system if you run it empty, but not sure how challenging that is. They are designed to shut down when the dry so if you constantly run the tanks dry before switching or where you have really long tank runs they might not be a good option.