Wow, Kelly,
You sure do a complete consult for a general question! I really appreciate it. I can see where you would have to have continuous prime with the foot valve intake assembly for the suction to be anywhere efficient enough. I see where they are discharging into bags towed on the sides of the platform to capture the FA and allow water to return. Thanks for the wonderful response. I most likely will not pursue the project by myself or anytime in the near future. However, I can see my grown grandsons scooping up 2ft square mats with leaf rakes and filling up a towed device, returning to shore when they have a hundred or so pounds of drained FA and dumping it into the woods then getting back in the boat after sweetening the pot from an igloo of cold Bud Lite.