I would, but I'm German and have a back up for EVERYTHING!
My story.......
Wife and I were out on the St. Lawrence fishing out of my '80 Silver line 20' cuddy.
Drove out to main channel, fired up my 9 HP troller and trolled for a few hours.
"Let's go over to Flynn's Bay and go swimming.
Fired up the 228 Merc and hit it, "Hmmm she;s not getting on plane"?
A hick cup in the engine, my wife picks up the dog coup and water is FLYING out of the coup!
(I had just had the bellows and "U" joint replaced the week before).
"Son of a Golf Club", (not what I said, but you get the point).
I'm 3 miles from French Creek, (our home port),
I look, the main bilge is pumping away, (I may have heard it kick on before, if the radio wasn't blasting)!!
She looks at the water, it's getting worse..........
I had a spare bilge wired in with a cigerette plug end and a long hose.
I had her plug that in, now I'm pumping 160? gal an hour, and still losing.
"Put your life jacket on, your phone in a plastic bag.
Float away from the boat and hang onto it, it won't sink, (I think), when it goes down.
I praying, she's crying and the boat is chuggin along LOW in the water.......
I limp into the marina, only to find a A**hole at the ramp loading up his boat with coolers and kids!
I scream, I'm sinking, get the F.... out of the way!
(they must have been short, cuz it went RIGHT over their heads)! Never ever bothered to look up!
"OK, I'll dock here, it's easy to pull her out once she goes down"!
I shut the motor off, and both bilges are pumping then stop????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
I open the coup and it's dry?????????????
Come to find out a expansion plug had rusted away, (it was a rebuilt motor and I guess they forgot the brass ones)!
So, the motor was pumping water into my boat!
I'm SURE if I had just one, they'd been pulling her from the bottom, EPA would have been slapping me with fines up the aft!
Moral of the story...
Weird things happen, but you can limit the SH** that comes with it, get a spare bilge!
Joe