[C320-list] Running engine with seacock off?

[Rick Smith]

I learned that trick in 1994 and it's not failed me once!!!  Always 
open/close a couple times to keep the valves operational.  And, while there, 
reach over and do the same for the valves for head, etc. which will keep 
them from getting brittle.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Robert Blix
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2020 12:24 PM
To: C320-List at catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Running engine with seacock off?

Always wedge key and it’s floaty in  hoses above raw water seacock

Bit of a pain lifting mattress but worth it

Have tempted fate once but never again ...

Rob Blix
C320/M2/Journey

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> On Aug 3, 2020, at 10:15 PM, Bill Carr <bcarr8239 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> A time appropriate topic. Yesterday we left deer harbor on the way to 
> anchor at Reid harbor when I noticed no water from the exhaust. 
> Fortunately the winds were favorable for a reach I put my wife on the helm 
> and determine something had blocked the seacock to the point when I opened 
> it with the strainer removed it only gave a trickle of water. I scavenged 
> my lockers trying to figure out a way to un block the offending  lack of 
> water. First I try my shop vacuum blowing and suctioning . Still just a 
> trickle. Finally I found a large electrical tie and forced it through the 
> opening twisted it around and dislodged the blockage. I reinstalled the 
> strainer and all is well. after 20 years with the boat it’s the first time 
> this has happened. We would have been upset too say the least if we had 
> caused damage to our only 80 hours old  Volvo penta.
> Bill Carr
> Utopia #31 c320
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Aug 3, 2020, at 12:19 PM, Graeme Clark <cg at skyflyer.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Oops
>> Finally did it
>> Started the engine and let it idle for a few minutes then slipped my 
>> lines and gently motored off
>> Suddenly realised I hadn’t turned on the seawater cooling seacock
>> Turned it on. Water coming out of exhaust. No external signs of damage to 
>> exhaust hose or water muffler
>> But will there be internal damage?
>> Am I risking sudden hose rupture for example?
>> As I recall it’s nigh on impossible to remove hoses without damaging them
>> Ideas?
>> Graeme
>> #366
>> 1996
>> Falmouth
>> England
>>
>> Sent from my phone. Excuse typos!
>