iG 44 High Water Alarm Location

[DBG8492]

Nope, my boat doesn't have one - therefore, I need to add one.

From what I can tell, the lowest point in the hull is somewhere just forward of the helm - which is awesome because it also appears to be the least reachable area.

There's a bilge pump under the forward water tanks, just about as far back as you can reach, and that doesn't appear to be far enough as it doesn't come on as often as I would like.

Regardless - who here DOES have a high water alarm and where did you put the sensor?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Phil Fill]

The Eagle has bilge pump alarms with counter. Used the bilgle pump float. Simple and cheap install.

When we retired as we land cruise 6 months per year, I installed a Serin wifi boat monitor so I can check on the boat each morning and peace of mind. Installed below the bilge float so turn on before the pump. The Eagles bilge is kept dry.

If you bilge pumps are hard to reach you can install easier access alarm with separate bilge float.

 

[Delta Riverat]

I can help with that one and it's easy too!

Forward (V berth) cabin and the floor panel even has a lift. Right there. That's the low point and that's the location of my forward bilge pump. Water tanks are just aft, you should see them after lifting the floor panel and looking aft.

I found this out after leaking shaft packing and 200 gallons of water in the boat -

 

[DBG8492]

I can help with that one and it's easy too!

Forward (V berth) cabin and the floor panel even has a lift. Right there. That's the low point and that's the location of my forward bilge pump. Water tanks are just aft, you should see them after lifting the floor panel and looking aft.

I found this out after leaking shaft packing and 200 gallons of water in the boat -

Woah... Yeah I learned that the lowest point on these trawlers can be deceiving. On our Marine Trader, I thought it was under the main. Found out I was wrong - and that ouro forward bilge pump didn't work - after finding water licking at the galley deck plates. Now it's the first thing I try to figure out.

Thanks so much!

 

[JackConnick]

I'd certainly put a pump in the lowest part of the bilge. I have a small rear pump and a main pump in the bilge. I just installed a large, separately wired 4000GPH pump with a 2" discharge with high water sensor and alarm about a foot above it.

 

[DBG8492]

I'd certainly put a pump in the lowest part of the bilge. I have a small rear pump and a main pump in the bilge. I just installed a large, separately wired 4000GPH pump with a 2" discharge with high water sensor and alarm about a foot above it.

This would make the Admiral very happy...

There's already a pump there, and it works, but after our experience on the MT, she's once-bitten twice freaked out. So the next "big" project will be re-doing the bilge pump system.

 

[jgtrucking]

IG44 lowest point for the main bilge pump is under the first floor panel in the forward cabin. So a good "high water" alarm place would be between the engines in the ER.

 

[DBG8492]

IG44 lowest point for the main bilge pump is under the first floor panel in the forward cabin. So a good "high water" alarm place would be between the engines in the ER.

Yeah, the PO actually put a bilge pump between the engines, just aft of the forward engine room water tank. It wasn't working, but it was there. I replaced it and wired the high water alarm to the float switch for that one because I figured that if the water rises that high that far back, something is definitely wrong and needs to be looked at.

 

[jgtrucking]

That tank just forward of the engines should be your black tank.

 

[DBG8492]

Nah - the black tank is up higher, just to the starboard side of the genny - in front of the batteries that are in front of the starboard engine.

There are three water tanks in the bilge between the engines - one just aft of the genny, one in the middle and one all the way to the aft end of the engine room.

The fill runs from the port side to the far forward tank, then the rest are linked to it.

Then there's the two forward tanks under the forward companionway and two under the aft berth.

 

[jgtrucking]

Ah, very different layout then.