Posted by A Little Madness on 09/04/10 - 5:00 AM
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Following on w/Joe's comment, we keep ours in the slip most of the year, so a bilge pump is a necessity if it rains. Before I installed one and had my batteries in the stern I came down one morning to find the water half way up the battery box. Thus a bilge and I moved the batteries into the center console during our renovation. I've also been waked so bad on the ICW that it took over 5 minutes to pump out the 1' of water that @%*&@$ of a 50' Sport Fisher put over our bow. Bottom line to me....it can't hurt and will help. Good Luck