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<blockquote data-quote="gillhunter" data-source="post: 251079" data-attributes="member: 5151"><p>Yes. #-o While on vacation (fishing of course) my wife and I came in from fishing in the morning and tied our Polar Kraft 168 SC up to the pier. My wife was the last one out of the boat and I asked her to turn off the livewell pump (500GPH), something that I normally did. The pump was controlled by a 3 way rocker switch. Manual, Off, Auto. She went past Off and switched it to manual. We then let for town to get more supplies and were gone 2 1/2 hours. When we got back I noticed that something really looked strange about the boat, ran out to the pier and there was water almost up to the casting decks. The batteries were submerged, but the powerhead on our 90hp Yamaha was still above water, which was 6' deep. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on.It took a </p><p>couple of hours for for the 500 GPH bilge pump to empty the boat. (Yes it did run with the battery submerged). After the boat was pumped out everything worked and we were still married :LOL2: and good to go. As far as I'm concerned foam saved what could have been a ruined vacation and some expensive repairs. Our current boat has all the factory foam.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gillhunter, post: 251079, member: 5151"] Yes. #-o While on vacation (fishing of course) my wife and I came in from fishing in the morning and tied our Polar Kraft 168 SC up to the pier. My wife was the last one out of the boat and I asked her to turn off the livewell pump (500GPH), something that I normally did. The pump was controlled by a 3 way rocker switch. Manual, Off, Auto. She went past Off and switched it to manual. We then let for town to get more supplies and were gone 2 1/2 hours. When we got back I noticed that something really looked strange about the boat, ran out to the pier and there was water almost up to the casting decks. The batteries were submerged, but the powerhead on our 90hp Yamaha was still above water, which was 6' deep. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on.It took a couple of hours for for the 500 GPH bilge pump to empty the boat. (Yes it did run with the battery submerged). After the boat was pumped out everything worked and we were still married :LOL2: and good to go. As far as I'm concerned foam saved what could have been a ruined vacation and some expensive repairs. Our current boat has all the factory foam. [/QUOTE]
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