Bilge b dry

liv2ryde100

liv2ryde100

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07' 40 sundancer
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cummins 5.9 380's
I remember reading about this but I can’t seem to find it, I think it was a veteran owned company and they made a product to get that last little bit of bilge water out of the boat and keep it dry. Anyone remember seeing this product?
 
liv2ryde100 said:
I remember reading about this but I can’t seem to find it, I think it was a veteran owned company and they made a product to get that last little bit of bilge water out of the boat and keep it dry. Anyone remember seeing this product?
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www.neptunianskyllc.com

BILGE-B-DRY | Neptunian Sky

BILGE-B-DRY is the world’s only Smart Device enabled Dry Bilge System on the market! Enjoy simple installation and customized scheduling control at your fingertips with our Mobile App for Apple or Android devices. Due to size and placement, traditional bilge pumps cannot remove the last few...
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I purchased it last year, have it about 6 months. It does work but pumps out slowly. If you allow it to run a few minutes a couple of times daily it does do the trick. Best of luck
 
Someone on this forum did a DIY version. I believe it was last summer.
 
wyrman said:
Someone on this forum did a DIY version. I believe it was last summer.
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I remember that but couldn’t find it, I need one with three pickups because I have water that collects in a couple different spots
 
Read their military discount page. Very funny stuff.
 
liv2ryde100 said:
How many pickups/pumps did u go with
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3 pick ups with one pumping unit, one for the center bilge and 1 for both compartments around the rudders. It does work quite well but is slow. I bought it for convenience. I looked at pumps and figured it would be at least 100-150 for parts plus the timing circuit but at least a few hours (and this is being optimistic in boat project time) for construction / cursing that it doesn't work / 3 trips to the hardware store / west marine / ah... it finally works. At this point 250 dollars is cheaper for me.
 
liv2ryde100 said:
I remember reading about this but I can’t seem to find it, I think it was a veteran owned company and they made a product to get that last little bit of bilge water out of the boat and keep it dry. Anyone remember seeing this product?
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I had my BILGE-B-DRY dual pump installed in my Cruisers a few months ago and it works great! I like that I can use my phone to program the run schedule and I can run more than one water pick up to different areas of my bilge. I found Sea Flo annoying to program since you have to access the pump each time and they don’t have more than one pick up.
 
I have it also the 4 pick up system. Initial thoughts are good but it is not just set it and forget it. It does require maintenance as the pump can get plugged up by any kind of oil or grease it may suck up. I drop my pickups in a small bucket of soapy Dawn water every 3 months and turn it on and let it flush. If you do find blockage you have to use a syringe to inject soapy water into the clogged port while running to free it up. Overall it has been a handy device to drain pockets of rain water that find their way into the bilge.
 
Great discussion here: http://www.clubsearay.com/index.php?threads/diy-dry-bilge-system.111546/page-4#post-1400639

I made a DIY one last season but didn't really document it helpfully. Anyway it's fairly easy and cheap as these projects go, though I encountered major difficulties tuning it to successfully clear two bilges from a single pump. The thing is basically just:

1. A scotchbrite dish scrubbing pad (the yellow ones with the green abrasive top)
2. With a plastic barbed hose fitting with some holes drilled in it poked through the sponge
2. Mounted with screws to an ordinary wall plate, through which the hose barb protrudes
3. Connected via 3/8 hose (clear is ideal so you can see it working) to a strainer
4. Connected to an ignition-protected self-priming water pump
5. Connected to a tube plumbed into your cockpit drain or some other convenient outflow (don't use the existing bilge pump hose! Keep that unadulterated.)
6. With the pump wired to a basic DC timer *outside the engine room* set to run 2-3 minutes a day.

Maybe $100 in parts.

I have two bilges so fitted a Y pipe ahead of the strainer with a selector valve. Whenever I remembered I'd flip the valve over. Running both sucky things at the same time worked, but as soon as one bilge was dry, the resistance on that length of tube dropped right down and the pump would just suck air. Hence the diverter. I think you could probably work around that by using much narrower tubing so the difference between sucking air and water is less.

Filtering it was a bitch too - you've got to make sure the sponge covers the whole of the barb fitting or it'll just get blocked at the sponge end.
 
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