Is there some universal
boat law that says there must always be some
water in the
bilge?
A few weeks ago I sucked all the
water out with my wet vac and dried the
bilge. Just to have a werid storm come along that blew rain under the
dodger aganist the hatchway; putting water back into the bilge.
So I sucked it out and dried it again.
Only to forget to turn on the
shower sump pump before taking a
shower one day so water ended up back in the bilge.
So I repeated the sucking activity middle of the week while on the
boat for something else. And 3 days later (Sat) was happy to find the bilge still dry.
So today (Mon) after sailing ths weekend I go to the boat for something else and check the bilge; and dang it it has 1/2" of water in it again (way below the
pump level)! Maybe it came from the frig because I loaded it with ice and the level was up aganist the door and was leaking around the seal. But then again I was pretty heeled over the other day and maybe it came in the
bilge pump line as it seems low to me on the boat (have to look into this more, and we are talking like a quart or so of water so don't start telling I'm sinking).
Regardless it just seems there must be some natural law that says it is not acceptable to have a dry bilge!