"rhys" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:53:34 GMT, "Roger Long"
wrote:
I told him the boat was from the Great Lakes and he said, "Oh, no
problem.
In that case, it's a great engine and should be almost as good as new.
You
should get 15 more years out of it easy."
That's about right, and a very good argument for freshwater cooling
via an exchanger. Even in lake water, it can't hurt to run clean
coolant instead of whatever you happen to be sailing in, which can
have goo, poo and/or mussels in it.
...as time progresses I'll need all the other points of view I
can handle! I can't always count on guys like Skip Gundlach being
online G.
Hey!
I resemble that remark. However, today is a good day for me to see this, as
I just winterized (in my case, draining the water out is all I have to do)
my ski boat, as we're headed into the teens this weekend.
The exhaust manifolds spewed water that looked just like the red mud bottom
of the lake. There's not enough circulation/volume, and it tends to
accumulate, so, there you have it. The water from the block and water pump
was totally clear...
You'll not likely find a freshwater cooled ski boat, and in any case, it was
the exhaust manifolds, but it sure illustrated the point!
FWIW, for the very few watching, Flying Pig is coming along agonizingly and
excruciatingly slowly and expensively. Everything expands once you get into
it, and only one project is anywhere near completion, and another, which
should have been finished over a month ago, is just now ready to proceed
smoothly, all the other hiccups (presumably) having been dealt with.
I'm accumulating pictures in the currently-about-15 project folders; once
any have finished, I'll put them up on the gallery and tell the story. At
this point I'm praying the critical ones (I'm sure the less-than-critical
likely won't be touched) will be finished in time for us to leave...
L8R
Skip and Lydia
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain