Tony Brooks brought next idea :

>>> 
>>> Personally I would never fit an automatic bilge pump. The accommodation 
>>> bilge should not have a significant amount of water in it, if any at all 
>>> and the engine bilge should only have rain water in it. However I, 
>>> personally, do not subscribe to the stern-gland must drip argument so all 
>>> mine has to deal with is rain and as long as you visit fairly regularly it 
>>> never gets above the engine beds. I do take great care in exactly how I 
>>> adjust the stern-gland and I do have an Aquadrive which helps minimise 
>>> packing wear.
Well its a good job some of the hire boats round here fit them as some 
of them tend to pump out the bilge at every other lock or bend, I 
sometimes think that maybe they are raw water cooled





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