Best solution: Yell an expletive and add "Can't you follow a simple order!!"
Of course the best course of action is to prevent that from happening again.We drifted in calm water for about 10 minutes and I turned the engine back on and the temp went right down.
I was afraid some one would say that. It is (was) a brand new impeller and a real headache to replace. I will add it onto my short list, especially since my insurance agent recommends it. I may get one of the impeller extractor tools to assist me.
I never close my seacock for the enigne or the genset. I don't know anyone at my marina that does.
And as soon as I styart my engine or genny the frst thing I do is look for water out the exhaust. Just habit.
That would be me. And I do it because I burned a pump and warped a head on a Chrysler 318 once by forgetting. A man's got to know his limitations.I remember reading here somewhere that an owner leaves his boat keys on the handle of the seacock every time he closes it for any reason.
I never close my seacock for the enigne or the genset. I don't know anyone at my marina that does.
And as soon as I styart my engine or genny the frst thing I do is look for water out the exhaust. Just habit.
I never close my seacock for the enigne or the genset. I don't know anyone at my marina that does.
And as soon as I styart my engine or genny the frst thing I do is look for water out the exhaust. Just habit.
You dont need to close yours to clean your sea strainer?
Jay I've been off and on about closing the seacock but now that we live 30 miles from our boat I'm going to make sure I get that habit too.
No, I can actually R&R the strainer and only a little dribbles out unless the boat rocks hard to starboard.
I was afraid some one would say that. It is (was) a brand new impeller and a real headache to replace. I will add it onto my short list, especially since my insurance agent recommends it. I may get one of the impeller extractor tools to assist me.
Ditto
If I would close them, bad things are likely to happen.
I never close my seacock for the enigne or the genset. I don't know anyone at my marina that does.
And as soon as I styart my engine or genny the frst thing I do is look for water out the exhaust. Just habit.
Whether you have to close it to clean the strainer is a matter of where and how they are mounted: Just because one guy doesn't have to does NOT mean you don't have to! The design on that Hatt required all to have the seacock closed when cleaning and servicing. And that it be opened again to make sure the lid was seated correctly and/or to squeeze air out.
I believe that was the old Shell Oil commercial with Mr. Dirt?Used to be a commercial on TV, which had as the punch line "You can pay me now -- or you can pay me later." Later is liable to be a lot more expensive. Personally I would change that impeller ASAP. It is damaged. Perhaps a little, perhaps a lot. But running dry until the engine overheats pretty much guarantees that there is some damage. Just saying . . .
If one could do it a good objective analysis of the odds of forgetting to close or open and costs of the consequences of doing or not doing either would dictate what to do or not do.
Knowing your personality may be as important to determining which is a better way for you than the actual act.
In 12 years as a salvage guy for an assistance tower...in my area of responsibility..with thousands of inboard powered boats...out of the hundreds of dock sinkers...not one was ever due to a salt water intake system.
Even with failures...99% of the time the flow is so low that a bilge pump probably keeps up with it till discovered. Most of the time...even failure to tighten hose clamps or failure of them on the suction side of the waer pump causes slight or no issue at all. On the pressure side of the salt water pump..the boat starts sinking..then the engine quits and most often the boat stops sinking...is rescued and taken home.
Closing seacocks is like wearing a life jacket 100% of the time...the protection tends to be absolute...you just have to decide what the risk is.