J/30 Class Association Forums J/30 Forum The Boat, Sails and Equipment Can I run auto bilge pump through manual Whale pump?

Finally mounted a bilge pump (note i first started talking about it in June 2008

As mentioned before, I have 2 water talks on the port side, and I verified that there is no going under them with a hose.

So I routed my 3/4" hose up the starboard side (note that even then, the flex house would not fit, so I used plumbing hose for that segment).

From there, I just go forward to the hanging locker, up and to a thru-hull at the top of the anchor locker. So the water just drains down through my fixed anchor locker drain.

I figure this is good for the following reasons:

-no anti-siphon needed
-no new holes in hull
-shortest possible hose length
-if anchor locker drain clogs, no problem, it will be very obvious at next visit to the boat

I mounted the automatic pump using methods I found here on the list.

Ive attached some pictures

-dan