Marina berths and flushing your outboard

[Chris Murray]

I haven't seen many people flush their engines when they come in.

Actually, I don't think I have seen anyone do this.

I would be interested to know what RIBnet marina bertholders do.

If you are a bertholder - what do you do?

Cheers!

Chris.

[Scotty]

Mine lives on the marina for seven months a year. When the engine is shut down I leave it in the water for ten minutes or so to let everything drain out then I raise it. I have never flushed it out. At the last service the dealer passed no comment on it at all.

[benc]

Some engines, yamaha for definate, have a place you can plug a fresh water hose into, to flush the engines while they are down and still in the water.

I've not yet done this - I use my boat about 3-4times a week at the moment, so saltwater isnt getting much of a chance to settle...

[Roy Smith]

Chris it was me who shouted to you Sunday at Cowes i was on my friends Ribeye, with regards to flushing i have a cold water feed a bit like a garden hose tap attachment.are you out this week/weekend
Roy

[BogMonster]

On mine you can remove the telltale and stick a flushing adaptor in the threaded hole, but I don't bother (partly as I don't have the adaptor and when I enquired it was F expensive but mainly because I can't be bothered). The aux that arrives in the next few days has a similar arrangement, a bung on the bottom of the engine which you can screw a hose adaptor in to flush it without the engine running.

When it was in the water all the time it rarely went more than 2/3 days without being used so I figured there was no real danger of salt crystallising out, but now I take it out during the winter, I flush it each time then leave it trimmed right in to drain out so it doesn't get frosted. Time will tell if I am doing the right thing or not but it seemed to be sensible to me

[Chris Murray]

Originally Posted by Roy Smith

Chris it was me who shouted to you Sunday at Cowes i was on my friends Ribeye, with regards to flushing i have a cold water feed a bit like a garden hose tap attachment.are you out this week/weekend
Roy

Ah, so it was you Roy!

We finally have the right prop, thanks. We achieved an average of 44kts with nearly 80 gallons of fuel and 3 people on board. At last I am happy with the performance!

I am not usually let out on Bank Holidays, as they tend to get reserved for DIY. Of course, if the weather was really good ... ! I'll be down the following week though.

Cheers!

Chris.

[Richard B]

Chris, I guess you may have missed this: http://rib.net/forum/showthread.php?t=15741

[Jimbob]

Chris

With Evinrude you can get a "adaptor" . You take out the telltale plastic thing and put in this adaptor. So you still have the telltale when running, but you can place a hosepipe ( it connects using a standard garden hose connector)on for flushing. It quite simple and if you are thining of flushing whilst in the marine it will work,,,,it did it when mine was left in the water

[Rodan]

I flush mine regularly in the marina - there is a screw plug in the back of the engine and the hose fits nicely in this. Normally just leaving it running through for a couple of mins while the engine is warm...

[nugent]

my merc f100 had simmilar adaptor that you screwed in the tell tale area,
no need to run engine either just turn on tap if your mooring has one, and let it do its stuff, defo better where i was bearthed coming in at all hours, did not disturb others sleeping next to me, well after i got used to squezing the boat in there with out nocking every thing