Comments-Wave Bilge Pump

Environmentally friendly solution for keeping your bilge free of water, using wave action

The Wave Bilge Pump
www.jrsupplies.com

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6/11/2006
Mary Margaret Moore writes:

"Thank you for your conversation regarding the bilge pump. Your support for our adventure in sailing is appreciated. I will be in touch after I speak with the Marina folks early next week. As a woman who has been only partially independent in my mobility for over 30 years with a deep love of sailing I am now, with two new knees exploring my dream of sailing my own boat, a 22 and a half Pearson Ensign. Although the boat was built in 1968, and is 20 years younger than me, I am looking forward to learning how to moor, chart a course, head out of Salem harbor and feel that air on my face as we cut the engine and freely cruise by Misery Island to Marblehead waters. I see your bilge pump as an excellent assist to us. So, enjoy the day, and I will be in touch."

12/5/2005
Robert Kirk writes:

**"Lee & Bob... Thanks for asking about the pump. I bought it at the boat show about 15 years ago from a guy who was importing them from Norway. He's no longer around but the following web site has them (and a good description):

http://www.jrsupplies.com/

She also has a sub-distributor around Cape Cod.

The pump has been great for me. It's an hydraulic piston the size of a small bicycle pump with a moving float, hung over the fantail, with a suction tube running thru the lazarette down to the bilge. Wave action on the styrofoam float pumps the piston which sucks the water from the bilge. Absolutely reliable and keeps the bilges dry. Obviously it won't work in a quiet protected anchorage as I was reminded during the fall cruise when we woke in Harrison's Marina with water to the bottom of the batteries from blown packing. But my normal mooring off the Severn gets plenty of wave action to keep the pump pleasantly perking.

This reminds me to finally buy a replacement. The basic piston is fine but the bail is wearing through and the styrofoam float is getting spongy. I suppose I could overhaul, but...

It's worked for me all this time. I recommend it if you have a little wave action.

Bob Kirk
Isobar #181 **(posted at: http://www.alberg30.org/pipermail/public-list/2005-December/005086.html - permission granted to publish on December 6, 2005)

6/8/2005
Foerd Ames writes:

"I have used the Smart Pump on my Beetlecat for three seasons. It has been excellent and worry free, especially, when I am away for extended periods..." Business Contact

5/18/2005
Bruce Raine writes:

"Truly the best thing since the bread slicer...In the Bahamas our legacy wooden sloops carry the boom over the stern so I hang the little wonderguy out on that. Great to find you on the web. Bruce Raine" E-mail address.

5/18/2005
Michael H. Sherwood writes:

"Joan: Great site, to the point and not complicated. Thanks for the compliment of allowing me to comment. I've passed your new website on to some boating friends, and am in the process of passing it along to our yacht club membership. Just this morning I received an email from friend and waterfront neighbor who stated that he, too, just purchased one of our pumps.
Good luck, and keep me on your mailing list.
Thanks, Michael."

November 2003
Peter Fleishman writes:

"The smart bilge pump has made life on the mooring without battery chargers much easier. The pump dependably works long after everyone has gone home. Clever, practical and simple. Long live the Smart Bilge Pump!"

April 2003
Michael H. Sherwood writes:

"Some time ago I came across an 8 1/2 x 11 ad sheet describing the Smart Automatic Boat Pumps. I filed it with the good intentions of purchasing one later on.

Christmas of 2002, about ten years later and pushing sixty-two, I was coerced into getting a computer. At the same time, I realized my current home office of seven years was in serious need of total revamping with desks, tables, etc. I began dumping a considerable amount of pack-rat accumulation.

I came across the sheet advertising the Smart Pump. I attempted to contact the advertiser; however, the number was no longer in service. With the new computer and a couple of months of frustrating hands-on learning, I went to Google's web site, punched in Boating, Smart Automatic Bilge Pump, scrolled down to a site and punched it in.

As of 15 April 2003, I placed my order. About ten years later."

J R's Supplies, Inc

Bandon, Oregon 97411
(541) 347-5632
1-800-350-0564
Email: Joan Lynch