Are sea pumps and sea strainers the same?
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I for one think it wrong to beach a performance boat, but if you insist there is way to prevent the sand issue. Run large ball valve tee fittings on your water pickups with a hose running out the side of the boat with a thru hull fitting just below the water line at idle. Off plane switch the manual valves to pull water off the side of the boat. DO NOT forget to switch back before planning off.
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I for one think it wrong to beach a performance boat, but if you insist there is way to prevent the sand issue. Run large ball valve tee fittings on your water pickups with a hose running out the side of the boat with a thru hull fitting just below the water line at idle. Off plane switch the manual valves to pull water off the side of the boat. DO NOT forget to switch back before planning off.
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Isnt it the same as the water pickups on a TRS? Since the TRS doesnt have water pickups, you have to use thru hull pickup. If you are going to use thru hull fittings, why then even use the pickup in the drive? Seems like it would just be easier to plug it & forget it & let the hull pickup do it all. **Just asking, not saying i have all the answers.
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I did it on a 35 Motion with 1200's. There is a place called Blarney Island in Illinois that is a true hot bed for go fast boats to hang on Thursday night drag races. It gets real shallow (4') and real muddy water. After packing the innercoolers I came up with this plan of a high water pickup to come into dock. A local 36 Skater did the same thing only with electric valves after seeing my setup. I did not want to chance losing an engine to a failed valve.
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Isnt it the same as the water pickups on a TRS? Since the TRS doesnt have water pickups, you have to use thru hull pickup. If you are going to use thru hull fittings, why then even use the pickup in the drive? Seems like it would just be easier to plug it & forget it & let the hull pickup do it all. **Just asking, not saying i have all the answers.
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I for one think it wrong to beach a performance boat, but if you insist there is way to prevent the sand issue. Run large ball valve tee fittings on your water pickups with a hose running out the side of the boat with a thru hull fitting just below the water line at idle. Off plane switch the manual valves to pull water off the side of the boat. DO NOT forget to switch back before planning off.
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I did it on a 35 Motion with 1200's. There is a place called Blarney Island in Illinois that is a true hot bed for go fast boats to hang on Thursday night drag races. It gets real shallow (4') and real muddy water. After packing the innercoolers I came up with this plan of a high water pickup to come into dock. A local 36 Skater did the same thing only with electric valves after seeing my setup. I did not want to chance losing an engine to a failed valve.
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I did it on a 35 Motion with 1200's. There is a place called Blarney Island in Illinois that is a true hot bed for go fast boats to hang on Thursday night drag races. It gets real shallow (4') and real muddy water. After packing the innercoolers I came up with this plan of a high water pickup to come into dock. A local 36 Skater did the same thing only with electric valves after seeing my setup. I did not want to chance losing an engine to a failed valve.
Anyways sorry for the long write up but it was a miserable experience for me , and i have been searching for a solution to this trouble ever since. At the end of the year I sold my motors for bigger power , and hope to be reinstalling the new power within the next couple of weeks . I have bought sea strainers , knowing they probaly will not solve my problem , but if i can just clog them up only , I figure that I can clean them out a whole lot easier , than disassembling the entire cooling system.
With the above being said , I mentioned to my partner in business the other day whom is a mechanical genius , the exact same concept that you threw out there . And he said man thats a pretty good idea. But, I had never heard of this being done before. I toyed with the idea of just putting the high water pickups on the back of the boat , But could not come up with enough good info to justify cutting more holes in the back of my transom , for the faint hope of solving a problem.
SOmeone list those electric valves and I think that I might just try this.....
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