Looking for advise on salt water

[Sundy]

I'm looking into taking my boat to FL this coming winter ( gulf side - Naples ). Any advise as far as preparation? It would be in dry stack. I don't have a closed cooling system and looking for advise from others who have their boat in salt water environment. Should I invest in closed cooling or is an engine flush each time good enough? I plan on getting GPS also ( so many to choose from ). There aren't many I/O small cruisers like this down there. So I'm wondering if it's just a bad idea all together to take it down there.. Any feed back would be appreciated

thanks
Sundy

 

[ZZ13]

After every outing hose down entire boat with Salt Away or equivalent and flush engine with the same. Also keep engine and exposed electrical connections coated with anti corrosion spray. I spray mine a couple times a year.

 

[kiloil]

After every outing hose down entire boat with Salt Away or equivalent and flush engine with the same. Also keep engine and exposed electrical connections coated with anti corrosion spray. I spray mine a couple times a year.

Salt Away is the ticket. I use it for everything, inside, outside, trailer and flushing engine.

 

[pepper]

Salt away did not prevent my past and current problem. I have a 2011 28DA. I boat in brackish bay water. Last year,2014 had to replace manifold, risers etc due to curosion.
One year later, I have the same problem. Perhaps I just got a defective 350 mag. I would be interested to know if any other 2011 DA owners experienced my problem ?

 

[Sundy]

Salt away did not prevent my past and current problem. I have a 2011 28DA. I boat in brackish bay water. Last year,2014 had to replace manifold, risers etc due to curosion.
One year later, I have the same problem. Perhaps I just got a defective 350 mag. I would be interested to know if any other 2011 DA owners experienced my problem ?

Just curious, do you keep your boat in a marina, on a lift, trailer, dry stack? Do you flush it out every time you take it out? This is exactly what I want to avoid

 

[pepper]

Just curious, do you keep your boat in a marina, on a lift, trailer, dry stack? Do you flush it out every time you take it out? This is exactly what I want to avoid[/QUOTE

My boat has always been dry stored in an enclosed shed at a marina. It has always been flushed after every outing. Also been serviced by the dealer.

 

[mquiet]

Your manifolds and risers should be examined roughly 3 years. If your boat is 2011 they were scheduled to fail. Fact that you dry store might not really help them. It is a standard maintenance for gassers.


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[pepper]

Your manifolds and risers should be examined roughly 3 years. If your boat is 2011 they were scheduled to fail. Fact that you dry store might not really help them. It is a standard maintenance for gassers.


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mquiet,
My boat was 3 years old last year and I had the manifolds and risers replaced last year. July 2014. It is now 2015, exactly one year later and they have failed again. What happened to the 3 year time frame ? I thought I would have 2 more years. Replacing every year just does not sound normal to me.

 

[kiloil]

I've started running Salt Away from my boat on day one and it would of been the second Blackstone Lab report this year but I sold the boat. They test for just about all contaminants in engine oil and other fluids.