. So he called me and said we’re going out 10:15. I gets there and notice as I was driving the sea had a big ish swell and a quite afew white horses ..
Your sky has veins.Good evening guys and those new yr-new me types
My mate who’s boat I go sailing on. Invited me out for a new yrs sail.. anyway his girlfriend hasn’t got her sea legs.
Then the news came his girlfriend was coming along.
I thought about it and said nothing.
Anyhow we set off and got out of the marina and then she said “oh my-I can’t do this, I need to go back in..”
So we turned around and went back in.
And didn’t come back out because of the hight of the tide would be to low to come back in in 3hrs time.
I just kept my thoughts to myself. But next time if the situation is similar I may just remember to remind them of this day
Btw the swell was about 1.5 ish mts. We got a short vid from someone who was standing on the arm as we went out. This is a screenshot or 2
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Toenail have you seen anything on this rooster Waterdog Outboard Savers?Seems to have invented slash discovered a way to neutralize galvanic cooling passage corrosion in outboards like ours. Makes a lot of sense given the failures that i have seen
I looked them up and from my understanding it should work to at least slow the process of corrosion. The difference for us would be that I am in a freshwater environment unlike you so I do not have the high potential of the aluminum being eaten away as fast. It seems like they are looking at the passing of sea water across dissimilar metals in the thermostat and stripping negative ions that in turn steal positive ions from the aluminum in passing(rudimentary battery). I could see how it could help especially in those who don't flush their motors after a sea run or store them on lifts in salt water. For this area one rarely sees much pitting on the inside of outboard motors unless you store them on the water. My regular anodes show little wear to them and what there is looks to be just oxidation from normal use. Their website is somewhat iffy, and looking at the pictures of the product, am I assuming that they are making a zinc anode that encircles the thermostat? If that is the case then inserting a zinc tube after the thermostat with plates inline with the water flow would do a better job because of increased surface area.
You've summed it up pretty accurately mate. The issue here is outboards that are religiously fresh water flushed after admittedly saltwater use still corrode through near to or in the thermostat housing, and there is an anode there already. But perhaps it does have to be a part of the thermostat body itself in order to give up its charge to the 'water flow battery'.
Almost like a form of white aluminum oxide. It would take a processing heating to return it back to aluminum from the compound state. When I see the pictures he posts with the holes eaten on the exterior housing and the white material clogging the block it reminds me of our hot water systems in this limestone environment where our wells are. Heating the water for use will cause the limestone to precipitate and can clog the heater, which most people in the area use tanked heaters. Every so often you drain the tank and flush it out. Tankless heaters require you to remove the heat exchanger and use something like vinegar to descale it every 2 to 3 months.
