Quote Originally Posted by Hoss928 View Post
I have a checklist I do every time before leaving. The Bilge pump is one of the things I check before and many times during.
I am glad things worked out for you. It may have been a different outcome if its been an inboard.
We always watch the bilge. It got clogged up right about the time we called it. I think something washed down into it when we swamped it, either on the way out or as soon as we started back. It looked like rotten masking tape or something, it was wrapped completely around the pump. I got it cleared right before we pulled into the marina, but the pump still wasn't running well enough to catch up. It's getting replaced before the boat goes in the water again.

We've been caught in that kind of weather before but never had a problem keeping the bow up. This time though...

I'm not sure where the stuff came from. We're always very careful about keeping small debris off of the deck and out of the lockers and never leave anything laying when we work on the boat. I'm going to pull everything out when I'm replacing the pump and get a shop vac down there. Lord knows everything has to have been washed back there with as much water came over the bow.