Water coming out of carb

[Larryrsf]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

As an ex-Navy sailor, please allow me to assure you.....That sea water IS that bad. It will corrode almost any metal you put into it (Gold won't corrode, so if your engine is made of solid gold you're safe). As I'm sure you are aware, the reason for tilting your engine up is to get it out of that sea water... but the water inside your engine will continue it's corrosive actions. Even if all the water drains out, the salt film left behind on the metal is still there, still eating into everything. If it's possible to fresh water flush your engine, then by all means do so. Your engine will thank you for it with many extra years of service.

I have been thinking about how I might attach the muffs to a broomstick and push them onto the lower unit with that. I'll keep working on that.

When we get a glimpse of the hull or motor or anything on any boat that has been submerged, it gets very ugly very fast! In only weeks there is a coating of green moss, etc. I am wondering how easy that will be to remove when I finally get the boat onto a trailer. My lower unit extends into the water only a few inches when tilted up-- and there that stuff is! I need to check it again after a short outing-- to determine whether the speed in the water scrapes that stuff off.

Periodically the sailboat owners hire divers to go down and scrape the bottom of their boats. I am unsure what that costs, but can't be cheap!

Regardless, having the boat in the Marina is certainly a LOT easier than trailering, loading, retrieving, etc. That process would almost certainly result in some sort of accident eventually because it isn't easy to launch or retrieve a Wellcraft V20. I am obliged to crawl through the back of my Durango and climb up onto the front of the boat-- thank goodness for that railing! But one slip of a foot and I could injure a leg badly enough to risk an infection! It is definitely a two-man operation. I suppose I could do it alone, but the others using a busy launch ramp would have to wait-- I would get lots of moans and complaints on a Saturday morning here on Shelter Island. So I am glad to have it in the Marina.

Larry

[phatdaddy]

Larry, do you have bottom paint on your hull? they also make it for outdrives.

[Larryrsf]

Originally Posted by phatdaddy

Larry, do you have bottom paint on your hull? they also make it for outdrives.

No. And something with a lot of arsenic in it would have been a good idea, albeit that is super illegal these days! Years ago bottom paint contained all sorts of toxic stuff.

As I walked to and from my boat today I was able to look at the lower units of several outboards and I/O rigs that are down in the water and saw the HORRIBLE growth from the sea water.

I have no idea how I will get that off my boat bottom! My lower unit is tilted up as far as possible but still extends only a few inches into the water. The marine growth after 3 weeks in that few inches is amazing! So today I looked at the growth before and after an hour ride in the harbor. I kept the speed up over 20MPH most of that time and hit 30+ for a few minutes. Guess what? The marine growth was exactly the same, NO change! So simply erosion from the rushing water is certainly not going to remove that.

Larry

[phatdaddy]

so, your keeping your boat in the water for the summer without any bottom paint on it?

that might not be a good idea

[Larryrsf]

Originally Posted by phatdaddy

so, your keeping your boat in the water for the summer without any bottom paint on it?

that might not be a good idea

Just got a call that my boat trailer is ready after having been almost completely rebuilt. I plan to tow the trailer to a storage yard on MCRD where I will store the boat and trailer after I take it out of the water in the Fall. The MCRD facility is near the Harbor Island Marina where my boat is. And MCRD has a launch ramp. I think everything is there, water, power, etc. So I could drive down and work on it there, even paint the bottom after cleaning the marine growth off.

NOW, how do I move the boat on the trailer enough to get to the places the bunkers and rollers normally touch? That boat is HEAVY especially with the outboard motor on it-- any sort of jerry-rig support might be pretty dangerous to work underneath.

AND, what is the best way to remove marine growth? I have a power washer...

I will make a point of asking the guys who SCUBA underwater in the Marina to clean the boat bottoms of the sailboats-- which are too big to trailer.

Larry

[Striper80]

Originally Posted by Larryrsf

No. And something with a lot of arsenic in it would have been a good idea, albeit that is super illegal these days! Years ago bottom paint contained all sorts of toxic stuff.

As I walked to and from my boat today I was able to look at the lower units of several outboards and I/O rigs that are down in the water and saw the HORRIBLE growth from the sea water.

I have no idea how I will get that off my boat bottom! My lower unit is tilted up as far as possible but still extends only a few inches into the water. The marine growth after 3 weeks in that few inches is amazing! So today I looked at the growth before and after an hour ride in the harbor. I kept the speed up over 20MPH most of that time and hit 30+ for a few minutes. Guess what? The marine growth was exactly the same, NO change! So simply erosion from the rushing water is certainly not going to remove that.

Larry

Don't worry, a few more weeks in the water and you won't be able to hit 20mph. I'd get that boat out ASAP, clean the bottom, and paint it before the bottom is ruined.
By the way, trailers have bunks not bunkers.

[bradford]

http://youtu.be/5d3qie3jbHk

[Larryrsf]

Originally Posted by bradford

http://youtu.be/5d3qie3jbHk

Thats what the worst ones look like! Can you just wash that stuff off?

[Larryrsf]

Originally Posted by bradford

http://youtu.be/5d3qie3jbHk

How do you embed those images? I tried to copy images from my computer and paste them into a post and it rejects them for being too large. When I reduced the size it gave a batch of machine language.

Larry

[Striper80]

Originally you said your boat was not painted, hence the concern.