After the lake care

[addfw]

How do you guys do this if you keep your boat on a lift? On the lift we park it, start putting cover on, then lift it. Is it okay to start the engine again with the boat completely out of the water?

 

[biffdotorg]

How do you guys do this if you keep your boat on a lift? On the lift we park it, start putting cover on, then lift it. Is it okay to start the engine again with the boat completely out of the water?

Lift or trailer, it's the same procedure. The whole idea is blowing out the water, without taking in more. If you are in the water, you are drawing in water. If you are talking dry stack, that's a different story. Dry stack places, have a location to set your boat while you clean it up and flush it etc.

Usually when I fire it now, it's just firing it up with no revs. It blows a majority of the water out with a fire up and idle. At least enough not to hurt it if it froze.

 

[swatski]

How do you guys do this if you keep your boat on a lift? On the lift we park it, start putting cover on, then lift it. Is it okay to start the engine again with the boat completely out of the water?

What @biffdotorg said.
The only significant advantage of blowing the water out on the trailer is that you can raise the bow and let a lot more of it flow out. Either by stopping up the ramp or cranking the trailer jack up.

But in reality, there is no way to get all the water out from the system in these boats, there will always be some left with water boxes.

Blowing the cooling lines dry is a good idea. And that can be accomplished with just running the engines briefly out of the water without excessive rev ups. As Cobra said.

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[Gym]

@swatski is correct. In fact once I pulled one of the waterboxes out to do some work. I turned it upside down and every which way in an attempt to drain out all the water. After a half hour of trying I gave up. There's just too many baffles inside to allow a complete emptying of the waterbox.