Wow think I used enough "I's" ?
Lol

Dawn, more than other dish soaps also remove any wax that was protecting the boat...no idea if salt-away has the same effect

You are correct I don't use it on the sides, just to flush motor and outdrives. Most any dish soaps will, they are formulated to cut grease. I always use a auto soap to wash boat/cars/motorcycles.

In both my Sonic and our Pathfinder we flush each motor on the hose for 5min (bump throttle).

We hand wash every inch of the boat with soap and water, interior and exterior, and we spray motors down with WD40 (for the O/B we take the cowl off). Never once has a corrosion issue using this method.

I stored my last boat, 25 Daytona, there for a few years and they are great. Loved the service, just show up and they remove your boat from its individual storage, and launch/retrieve you in fresh water. We live on the water in Benicia, keep the boat on its trailer in the enclosed carport at our house and the launch ramp is 1/2 mile away. Our boat will be launched and retrieved in salt water most of the time. We will have occasional trips to local lakes but the majority of the time we launch on the Carquinez Straits and go east to the Delta or west to SF Bay.
I'm going to check with Merc Racing to see what procedure they recommend.
I keep hearing about flushing with Dawn dishsoap. How is this done? What does it do? I would not wash my boat with it because I'm sure it would strip the wax. I may wash the trailer and wheels with it.
Thanks for all the input.

Do you lightly mist/rinse down the dash, throttles, etc and dry everything immediately? Then use spray detail wax on all of it??

Wish the sonic we washed the inside with soap and water and then dry it all, then go do the outside. I would spray detail the boat (hull and inside) every time and once every 2 months full hand wax it.


looking back I don't miss that cleaning job at all lol.

for the salt away when you buy it the first time you buy the kit (liquid and dispenser) from then on just buy the jug of salt away, the dispenser screws onto the hose and then attach flush fitting or spray nozzle.
I flush the engine with just water every time and run salt away through it about once a month, I just put stainless marine exhaust on and after three years in salt water the stack manifolds looked as good as a fresh water boat.
I use dry-rack storage and if you have that available check into it to me its worth every dollar

If you are running stock 300SX cowls, you are going to get water intrusion. Check out the DBR website video there. I have found that CRC 3-36 is a great product to spray the motor with the cowl off after washing. you can find it on Amazon in a bulk gallon for under $30. Also, on your manning trailer, if you have stainless steel wheel centers, they tend to hold water. Drill a few spaced small holes near the base for drainage. My Manning came with cast iron calipers which soon rusted the pistons. Switched to SS and no problems. That was in fresh water!

Really?

In this day and age someone is building a cowling that let's water into it?