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

[Ade Bateman]

On Friday, November 6, 2015 8:17 AM, Warren Updike wrote:
> Note for the older models: in 1995, the bilge design was changed from
> "shallow" to "deep." As I understand it, the "deep" bilges have the pump
> sited outside of the actual bilge in which case a filter would make some
> sense. Even just some screening secured with a wire tie would suffice. In
> the earlier "shallow" bilge, the pump is in the bilge mounted on the hull.
> Even here some screening around the pump intake could help prevent stuff
> getting to the impeller. That said, we have the "shallow" bilge with no
> screen/filer and have had no problem with the impeller fouling.

Has anybody fitted a secondary bilge pump in a shallow bilge boat? This
thread and some of the other recent bilge pump threads has got me
thinking but I'm not sure where to mount a secondary and where it would
draw from.

Cheers,

Ade.