On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:58:13 -0400, you wrote: For keeping eel grass etc out of the raw water strainer, our boat came with a kind of clamshell arrangement over the inlet. Boats like ours that lack this do have problems, so it seems to be effective.
For inside the boat, Bob has a strainer - kind of a slotted plastic ball that clamps on the end of the hose - it's plastic. He thinks he got it from Harbor Freight. He uses it when we winterize the boat or as an emergency pump for the bilge. He explained this to me but he talked too fast for me to type it all and he refuses to repeat it because he says it is not on topic. But near as I can tell, this is what he said about winterizing. We've got a sump that holds about 20 gallons. When we get ready to winterize the boat, he puts about 5 gallons of antifreeze in the sump and runs a line from the raw water intake to the sump. Before he shuts down the engine for the winter, he shuts down the raw water intake and draws the antifreeze from the sump into the engine. He has this plastic strainer thing on the hose in case there's any debris in the bilge. > >That sounds like a great design; simple, cheap, adaptable and effective. We use the strapping or something like that as lifelines. They don't roll underfoot like wire. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
