Electric bildge pump . .

[DanaDCole]

Thanks Pete (Tattoo). After reading your post and several others I decided not to install a pump. Unneeded extra work, expense, and complication. I put a drain hole in BH8 just in case more water gets in there than I can easily sponge out. There were two plugs included with the hull hardware package, and I think I read somewhere that originally there was to be a hole for a plug in BH8 as well as BH1. I added a lift-out section to the floorboards for access to the plug, which meant I had to fashion another floor joist (floor 7.5). An advantage to that mod is that I was able to use 8-foot boards for all the floorboards. (More info on the mod here: http://danacolepocketshipbuild.blogspot.com/2015/01/floorboards-starting-to-install.html . When I get the floorboards and new lift-out section installed I'll probably add info and pictures about that to my blog.)

I will keep a hand-operated pump on board in case I get a lot of water in there. If I get more water than the hand-pump can handle then I have much bigger problems than a small electric pump can handle either.