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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DaleH" data-source="post: 475121" data-attributes="member: 15636">Given that ... I'd cut a hole in the battery compartment floor so fast! Yes, you want the bilge pump as low as possible for that exact reason - WEIGHT! Here's a sobering statistic from 'flooding' a boat, granted from my 'saltwater' boating files:A 2" hole that is 1' below the waterline results in 78 gallons/minute entering the boat. With every minute the hole isn't plugged or pumped out, one is adding 650-pounds of freshwater weight to the boat or ~671-pounds of saltwater weight to the boat, and that ratio only increases as the boat sinks lower and lower into the water, or heels ... which is why my saltwater boats always had a bilge pump exit out each side of the stern.</blockquote>