O C Diver
Guru
- Joined
- Dec 16, 2010
- Messages
- 12,923
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Slow Hand
- Vessel Make
- Cherubini Independence 45
My little John Deere has a raw water flow rate of 35 GPM at WOT. After derating the bilge pumps for head pressure, I theoretically am still over 125 GPM (know it will be significantly less than that). Nice to have a small engine with 1.25" raw water hose. Happiness is when your bilge pump hoses are bigger in diameter than the engines raw water hose.If a raw water hose completely failed down stream of the raw water pump there is no way my 3 bilge pumps could handle that much water. Maybe with the engine at idle but even then I doubt it.
Ted