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jay
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Initially Posted - 07/25/2007 :  12:55:41  Show Profile  Visit jay's Homepage
I bought a 2003 C250 and never paid much attention to the bilge pump.

There is a fitting on the aft port side to accomodate a pump handle.

Anyone know where to get such a handle ?

Also is there a bilge pump on board in the aft berth ?

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 07/25/2007 :  13:14:16  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Jay,
My 250 came without a bilge pump handle. The PO thought that the wet locker hanger bar was the handle!

I made one from 1/2" copper pipe with a dowel epoxied inside it for strength. I turned a handle for it on my lathe, but you could just as easily wrap it with tape or something to give you a grip. I'm sure you could find a replacement, but I was never sure which pump it was, and the handles I was finding online were running about $40+. I had the copper pipe laying around, as well as the dowel & epoxy, so my cost was basically my time.

My boat's older than yours, but I don't have any other bilge pump installed except the one that draws from down by the keel bolts.
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 07/25/2007 :  13:15:36  Show Profile
That fitting on the aft port is the bilge pump. There is a short metal handle that goes with it. If you can't fine it then you could make one out of stainless steel tubing. The bilge pump has a hose that yu should see in the bilge itself.
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willy
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Response Posted - 07/25/2007 :  14:30:48  Show Profile
Jay,
You may have it and not know it. Look for a small stainless pipe with a black handle and often a really thin line wrapped around it.
Willy
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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 07/25/2007 :  15:30:25  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by willy</i>
<br />Jay,
Look for a small stainless pipe with a black handle and often a really thin line wrapped around it.
Willy
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Yup! that pretty much describes it.
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Russ.Johnson
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Response Posted - 07/25/2007 :  15:33:02  Show Profile
Jay,
I lost my bilge pump handle, so I varished some wooden dowels.
Later I found the handle in the garage.
There is only one bilge pump and the handle connects to it, so it's mounted behind the aft bulkhead.
You can follow the bilge hose to see where it goes.

Do you have a water-ballast or winged-keel model?
The bilge is different between the two.
The water-ballast bilge hose is loose and usually isn't in the lowest spot.

Russ C250WB #793
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willy
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Response Posted - 07/30/2007 :  14:31:45  Show Profile
Russ,
That loose hose on the manual bilge pump has been the biggest pain in the @$$ on my 03 WB. When I was wrestling with water in the bilge regularly before, if I didn't prop that thing vertically it just swooshed around the bilge water rising to the surface with every pump. I have since mounted an electric bilge but as luck would have it, I have had no water in there all season.
Willy
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Russ.Johnson
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Response Posted - 07/30/2007 :  15:54:07  Show Profile
Willy,
Here's a link to the change I made --&gt; [url="http://www.catalina-capri-25s.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14927"]Bilge Pump Hose Mod for C250WB[/url]
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willy
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Response Posted - 07/31/2007 :  08:38:38  Show Profile
Thanks Russ!
Looks easy & fast!
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