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Donald Street // Cruising Pioneer

On the Wind Sailing

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The Importance of Manual Bilge Pumps

I think people nowadays better doing these passages as a holiday or as a sabbatical from their work it's not worth it. I really think that the you know all the rallies should be doing the same thing. It's interesting because in our cure last year which I was doing safety inspections on boats. One of the requirements is that manual bilge pump obviously and if people don't have it fitted we say well get one that you can mount on a board, stick in your cockpit locker and throw a hose down in the bilge. So one of the boats had gotten it and I've been educating them on this and I said well get the biggest one they make just buy the biggest one

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