[C320-list] By passing the water heater

[Jeff Hare]

No need to bypass it. Just use your shop-vac and drain the system. Don't forget the stern shower and start with draining the water heater then dry the longest runs and end up with the galley sink. 

We have done this for 10 years, although for the first couple I used a compressor to blow out the lines and that took longer.

I drain the aqualift muffler, then run a couple gallons through the engine and drain it again to take care of the engine.

Starting with a drained holding tank, I run a gallon of -60 through the head, a less than a half gallon through the fridge drain and about a gallon through each of the bilge pumps. Some years I have vacuumed the water out of the bilge pump hoses also. 

When you get good at it, you're done and cleaned up in an hour.
-jeff 

"Richard A. Walsh" <walshrichard at msn.com> wrote:

I know it is only Aug. but I do like to prepare. Several of my dock mates with Catalina 36's by pass their water heater when decommissioning their boats for the winter. I have always just added about 8 gallons of anti-freeze and ran it through the system, and the water heater. Has anyone by passed the water heater? If so how? Thanks Rick #709.