Bilge Pump
Brad: I take it you are lookin for the pump, not the bilge. If so, it is very likely that you may not have one. The 25.5 has a very shallow bilge and a pump would not likely be back by your inboard engine. If you have a bilge pump, whether manual or electric, it would be located under the floor boards in the main cabin between the dinette and the settee. My boat does not have a dedicated bilge pump, and I suspect yours does not either. I have the portable kind that looks like a big bicycle pump with a long hose on the end. Buy or borrow one of these to get rid of the water. Pump it into a bucket and throw it overboard. Once the water is gone, you need to find out where its coming from. If you have a lot of water, the likely sources are (1) leaking keelbolts, (2)leaking stuffing box where the propeller shaft exits the hull, (3)icebox drainage, or (4) other miscellaneous small leaks from all kinds of possible sources. Hunt them down and fix them. With the icebox, however, it will always drain the melted ice into the bilge unless you devise a way to plug the drain in the bottom of the icebox and are willing to either sponge it out or hook up a separate pump which will empty it, for instance, into the galley sink. You may wish to install your own dedicated bilge pump whether electric or manual accessible from the cockpit. I have not done this, but others may have and can probably help you if you want to install one. Good luck!
