livewell plumbing

[love2fish]

Bought a leanpost/livewell over the weekend. for those of you who have this style livewell what is your plumbing route for the drain? Do you go straight out the back of the boat (basically running your drainline along the bottom side of the floor) or do you run it down to a thru-hull in the bottom of the boat?

For the intake: I'm planning on installing a 3/4" clamshell style intake to a ballvalve to a strainer, to the livewell pump.

drain- 1 1/2 drainline to a ballvalve to the clamshell thru hull (with the opening towards the rear) in the bottom- somewhere around the intake or straight out the back... whatever you guys suggest.

Any suggestions or tips?

What kind of hose did you use? clear, smooth, lined?

[gran398]

love2,

Straight out the transom, near the bottom, bronze thru-hull with seacock in front (stainless handle)

Clear hose, red and blue nylon criss-cross reinforced. Double hose clamps.

Make sure it exits left or right of center. Bear in mind a potential twin set-up in the future, if applicable.



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[love2fish]

Gran:
"Make sure it exits left or right of center. Bear in mind a potential twin set-up in the future, if applicable."

Is this to try to have the drainline going as straight as possible or what?

Thanks!

[gran398]

Yep that helps, but just to have it exiting left or right of engine(s) placement. For sure not directly above the garboard drain, compromising transom integrity.

The recent install on Miss Delmarva is shown here...just look for the big round hole in the transom

Ours went to the port side, opposite the heavy rigging runs on the starboard side.

[love2fish]

Does anyone have any pictures of thier livewell plumbing. Looking for pics of the bilge area where the drain lines exit the boat.

My main concern with my boat is that I still have the original trough along the transom. I think this is going to cause me to have my 1.5 drainline too low and the livewell might not drain properly while the boat is at rest.  Also, my tank has 2 drains, a 1.5 drain towards the top which is an "overflow" and then the "end of day" drain which looks to be 3/4" at the bottom side of the tank.

I'm not sure which of these I am going to use. The shorted tank has more volume, but I'd have to build a "step" of some kind because there's about 5" between the top of the tank and the opening on the back of my leaning post.  The taller tank is only 20gal I think but would provide me with a lot more storage room under the lean post for dip nets, other random stuff...





Since both livewells basically have the same intake and drain port locations, I'm wondering if I could tie the 1.5" and the 3/4' together under the deck so I'd only have to have 1 drain thru hull. Is this a good idea?


Thanks!

[Blue Agave]

My main concern with my boat is that I still have the original trough along the transom. I think this is going to cause me to have my 1.5 drainline too low and the livewell might not drain properly while the boat is at rest.  Also, my tank has 2 drains, a 1.5 drain towards the top which is an "overflow" and then the "end of day" drain which looks to be 3/4" at the bottom side of the tank.

Chris, the well will drain no problem at rest, the overflow is above the drain and gravity will do it's thing.

[gran398]

Absolutely you can tie them together

[love2fish]

Sweet, ok, thanks guys.