C,mon Dennis dont be shy post the rest of that hull

Jerry,

there are pics popping up here and there. I thought it would be more fun to let them emerge on their own. This was right above a post you made on the "best rough water cat".

Has very significant problems with steady or low pressure in my 32 inboard #6 Skater. Tried increasing the lip, cutting into the canyone, etc. nothing worked. The solution was to permanently intall stainless tubes - facing forward to the direction of the oncoming water (front of boat) entering the tube, at an angle, to get the LBS needed. Went from barlely 15 at WOT to 40... just like that.

Gregg Reichman

I have had the exact opposite.
22 lbs at cruise Any movement of the steering wheel
produces 35-40 lbs.
I have since raised the pickups and ran -6 bleeds on the
back of the heads to lower water pressure.

This is with the transom pickup pictured above.

Is that Robert Garcia's Hell fire 46 skater?

Gregg, Is yours the pickups pictured in post 7 or 10?

I thought running the Merc water pressure relief (30 lbs.) would do the job of bleeding (dumping) off any excess water pressure?

My pickup was similar to the one depicted in post #10, not exact. When the boat was lifting it simply was pulling the tail out of the water too high and the presure would go away. This was also due, in part, to propeller choice, but mostly the pickup confiruration. I took a look at a 2006 40 Skater and saw a setup similar to the one I described in my post which is the one I am running now and decided it looked like it would work, so I figured why not try it, and it worked very well.

Gregg Reichman

You can also run a pre-set pressure relief value off of the Sea Strainer if you are running a strainer. If you have a ton of pressure this creates relief before has the chance to blow off other hoses in the system.

Just a thought

Gregg Reichman

First picture.
Seastrainer, check valve intercooler feed.
The bronze tee is freshwater flush.


2nd Picture Blowoff valve adjustable to 0-50lbs.


3rd Picture -6 bleeds onback of heads to tee
dumping overboard.