[C320-list] Electric Bilge Pump Inline Filter - Good Idea?

[Wash, Steve]

On our 320 (#1029) no filter was installed.  We had a long crossing on Lake Michigan and the bilge filled halfway with the packing seal drippings.

Our bilge was mounted under the port seat.

I disassembled it and found it had sucked up a small pebble (I have no idea how it got in the bilge) and had lodged in the flapper valve.  It couldn't create a vacuum and couldn't pull water from the bilge.

I don't know why they stopped.  When I bought a back-up pump, it came with a strainer.

Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: C320-list [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Amiraults Family
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 4:21 PM
To: c320-list at lists.catalina320.com
Subject: [C320-list] Electric Bilge Pump Inline Filter - Good Idea?

All:

 

My electric bilge pump failed to move liquid and so I have removed it on this last day I will be at the boat before spring - having also installed the winter cover today. Research, including looking at photos posted on the group website reveals that some C320 came as original with a filter between the bilge and the electric pump. 'Waltzing Bear, too' never had one.

 

This leads me to wonder why Catalina discontinued the practice on the C320 by the time 797 rolled off the line. The question, is there some good reason for NOT installing a filter between the pump and the bilge come spring when my pump will be working again?

 

Brian Amirault

797 Waltzing Bear, too  



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