u/GruntledGary

FYI on yet another reason for why these AI centers are a blight for residents in cities.

>Fayette County, Georgia, was telling residents to stop watering their lawns to conserve water. The request came after homeowners in a nearby subdivision reported unusually low water pressure, but when the county investigated, it found the cause: a data center campus 20 miles south of Atlanta had been drawing roughly 29 million gallons through two water connections the county didn't know existed, Politico reported Saturday.

I must just not know which guides and websites to hit up. Everything is out of date (or AI gen slop sites).

I want to know what places there are to eat where I can pull up a boat to the dock, disembark and eat with the kids then hop back on the lake.

I'm South Tahoe but anywhere on the lake is good.

I have a Cobalt CS23 Surf.

It's tied off at a slip in a marina there's no wake nor waves.

It didn't rain and the boat was covered.

When I checked the center hull storage where the central ballast tank is at there was a fair amount of water there.

The ballast tanks were emptied when I docked so it wasn't that it was leaking from a full ballast.

It must have been running rather regularly as the whole side of the boat was covered in spray from it bouncing off the dock.

As I was loading up the boat for the day it kicked on again.

How often should the bilge pump run if a boat is sitting idle in still zero wake water?

I don't understand how was taking on water at all.

Today while I was on the lake for 5 hrs and the pump only ran twice. I was cruising around but didn't get any water splashed inside so it wasn't from taking on water from above deck.

*Edit:

Appreciate all the info. I'm getting it pulled out to be inspected by the dealer under warranty. They tried to say it was normal which is obviously BS. As someone said, its a slowly sinking boat being bailed out by the battery run pump.

I'll post back once it's sorted.

(...or if it sinks before the service tech gets there, either way). ;)

I'm confused by this.

I thought you HAD to fuel your boat at a marina gas station if your boat is in the water.

Though I've seen people wheel gas caddies down the dock to their boat and fuel it in the slip?

Is that allowed?

Is that how people avoid paying $10 or more per gallon amd being forced to fill at the marina gas pumps (other than trailering your boat out at a ramp and driving it to the normal gas station of course)?