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Electric Bilge Pumps
All the familiar sub-floorboard denizens—Shurflo, Rule, Lovett, West and more—showed their stuff.

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We put 27 bilge pumps through their paces. That's a lotta flow, Florence.
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Bilge pumps are usually out of sight, but they should never be out of mind. They serve two purposes. First, they clear the bilge of incidental water that can cause a variety of problems. Water sloshing around down there is not a good thing. Second, a bilge pump buys you time in an emergency situationif, for example, you plow into a submerged object (rock, tree, ship container) and hole your boat, or a hose breaks and the engine pumps the boat full of water, or a seacock or other through-hull fitting gives way. Pump failure can lead to trouble, even catastrophe.
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