Re: '72 CC never has a bilge pump?
Now I am having doubts about if the foam is factory in my '72 CC.
Looking at History section, ad's show floatation "blocks" placed in Airslots in '73. My foam is not in block form, but looks more like flowed into for a better and tighter fit. But it has a slick outer coating, not rough like the canned sprayed in stuff has?
Other CC's that show floor removed also show foam.
These also do not look like added blocks, but more like flowed in foam.
Looking at history for '71's and last page shows feature list of the models available. I can't read it very well, but it does list foam as standard on all models except Steplift V24. That was in '71. Again, my '72 has more foam than shown from internal photo's of '71, and the pix of a '73 show less foam.
Is bilge needed if there is enough foam?
On an old, well used open seas salt water boat, seems easy enough to figure out.
Either it has water in bilge or it doesn't have enough to warrant bilge pump.
You would think that if the '72 needed it, that someone would have added one during those first 18 years of use (been in storage since '90). They did add a live well pump kit. But no bilge.
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