plumbing in a front ski locker BALLAST

[cannonman]

I have a bag on order that is going to fit in my ski locker in the front walkway. I'm going to try and go on a hour roadtrip down to a marine products store to try and get most my plumbing stuff early. so to my knowledge.... this is the plan. i have a drain plug that will be sitting right under the bag, hoping to find a 90 elbow that i can thread in lay my bag on top of it(?). then from elbow up to a one way pump, then to the high hole on the bow side of my sac. then i was going to plumb a hose from my motor side of my sac (low hole if there is one) and run it up and through by the captains feet and drill a hole for a spout and plumb it in to there. Am i on the right track? can i lay a bag right on a fitting and a hose? maybe wrap it with something? anybody see any issues? I need to get as much of the stuff ready as possible because a day or two after the bags show up i'm headed out on a week trip with it.

[Love2Ride]

Shoot a message to Brett B here on the forum. He has a pretty sweet setup on his bow bag

[Brett B]

I'll try and get some more detailed pictures of my setup. I mounted a Johnson reversible pump behind the subwoofer under the dash. I used the existing thru-hull fitting for the center T-handle (the one in front of the fuel tank) for the water intake/exit. I ran 1" hose from that intake thru the stringer up to the Johnson. I then ran a 1" hose from the johnson outlet under the deck along the starboard side to the bow starboard cup holder area. I put a quick disconnect on the end of that hose. That way I just pull out the hose and hook up the bow sack when I want it. The pump is self priming, and you can fill and empty through one hose. I did a similar thing for the rear pumps using the T-handle fitting by the V-drive unit. Be sure and install shut-off valves on any thru-hull ports. I wired in a seperate switch panel for the extra pumps and control them with 3 rocker switches. I got all the parts from wakemakers and Bakes.

Edited July 12, 2012 by Brett B

[cannonman]

That sounds like quite the setup? So I haven't got bags yet, but do they have lower and upper drain/fill ports? Fill from top highest and drain from bottom lowest side? Or does it not make a diff