10 Best Automatic / Electric / Manual / Hand / Portable Marine Water Bilge Pumps for Boat, Yacht Review

Most Reliable Marine Bilge Pump — Top Rated 2020

TOP Bilge Pumps Comparison Chart

1. The Best Automatic Submersible Boat Bilge Water Pump 12v with Float Switch [Maxzone]

• Quality
  95%
• Features
  95%

2. The Best Low Noise Small 12 Volt Electric Water Bilge Pump for Boat [Airtak]

• Quality
  90%
• Features
  95%

3. The Best Compact Efficient Silent Submersible 12v/24v/32v Marine Boat Bilge Pump [Rule]

• Quality
  85%
• Features
  90%

4. The Best Stainless Steel Universal Submersible Marine Boat Bilge Pump [Shoreline]

• Quality
  90%
• Features
  90%

5. The Best Reliable Compact Durable Bilge Pump for Large Boats, Yachts [Attwood Sahara]

• Quality
  85%
• Features
  85%

6. The Best 12-v Powerful Compact Reliable Manual Bilge Pump [Attwood Tsunami]

• Quality
  80%
• Features
  85%

7. The Best 1100 GPH Compact Efficient Long-life Non-Automatic Submersible Bilge Pump [Rule]

• Quality
  80%
• Features
  80%

8. The Best Automatic Submersible Boat Bilge Water Pump (12v 750GPH) [Seaflo]

• Quality
  85%
• Features
  80%

9. The Best 12-v Submersible Boat Water Bilge Pump 750GPH [Proline]

• Quality
  80%
• Features
  80%

10. The Best Self-priming Lightweight Anti-leak Hand Bilge Pump with Removable Hose [SeaSense]

• Quality
  80%
• Features
  80%

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How to Replace Your Boat's Bilge Pump That's Not Working

The bilge pump is an essential safety component on your boat. If it fails to work and you spring a leak in the boat, the boat could sink, so we need to replace it without delay. Before I go ripping the pump out, there's a couple of basic checks I can do. The first is to operate the switch at the helm to see if it comes on manually. The other thing I can do is lift the float switch to see if that switches it on. If neither of these work, there's a good chance the pump's defective and will need to be replaced. The first thing I need to do is unscrew the hose from the pump. On this pump I've got a garden hose fitting, so I can just unscrew that. But if we didn't have that, I'd have to undo this hose clamp, which would normally fit onto a barbed fitting on the pump. A good tip while we're looking at this is you'll see that has corrugated hose on it. It's easy to run but it's actually not good. We really want smooth bore hose because this interferes with the flow of water. It will actually probably reduce the output of this pump by about half. I have 500 gallons per hour pump, but with this corrugated hose, we're probably getting closer to 250. So the first thing I'm going to do is just trace back to above the existing connectors that go to the pump. I've just spotted actually that these are spade connectors and these were in the bilge of the boat, so they're completely uninsulated, and that's incorrect, so I'm going to replace this with proper crimped waterproof connectors. Cut the cables. I've already disconnected the battery. I've made one connection. I've got black to black. All I'm going to do now is make the other connection to the pump. Start off by stripping the end. Twist those together. And we're using waterproof butt connectors. So now we've finished the connections. The last thing is to reconnect the hose. And thankfully because we've got this garden-type hose connector on here, I can just screw this back on. So now I've made this connection, we can go and put the pump back into the bilge into the existing mount in the bottom of the bilge. Any time you make a connection on a boat, we really want to use a crimped connection. There are different types of connectors. This one is actually adhesive-lined and will shrink down. I've already stripped the two ends of the cable here. We've got yellow, blue and red, and that refers to different sizes of current crimp connections. We're using blue, so we use the middle one. You'll notice that the cable is a little slack in here. By heating up this plastic, it will shrink around the cable and give me a nice watertight joint. We can use a match or an open flame, but it tends to leave sooty marks on it, so I prefer a heat gun if I can possibly do that. You can actually see that it's shrinking, and you'll see the color of the cables start to come through. It goes translucent. I've done one side. So, there you have it. A perfectly waterproof joint. It's nice and tight there. It adds some additional strain relief and also prevent any water from getting in this. I can use this safely in the bilge without worrying about corrosion. So, the job's done. It took me about an hour, cost me less than $100. I know the boat's going to be safe, any water's going to be pumped over the side.

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A: The Automatic Submersible Boat Bilge Water Pump 12v with Float Switch [Maxzone] is our Editor's Choice as the best model of Marine Bilge Pump with its combination of performance, features, quality and price.

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