Nav wrote in message ...
I once resued a boat with a fish stuck in the inlet pipe (no strainer).

Cheers

I always getting fish stuck in the intakes/ thruhulls for the head
and AC's.
You either have to remove the plumbing and poke them out with a stick,
or let the crabs eat em, that usually takes no longer than 2 days.

Joe





Jeff Morris wrote:

Gordon wrote:

What good are strainers? Seems they could cause as many problems as
preventing.
Gordon


Here's what can get clogged in a heat exchanger if you don't have a
strainer. The gasket covers one end of a set of tubes - the salt water
travels the length 3 times in a dozen small pipes. The clump shown
covered about half the tubes, and the temp went from a normal 165 to 185
degrees. If the alternator had a heavy load we couldn't run full
throttle without overheating. Most of the "experts" claimed it was a
foul bottom, or mis-sized props, but my old cruising buddy insisted the
cooling system was overkill, so something had to be wrong in it.

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