Washing alluminum boat

[falcon01]

Hi I am going to my wife parent who life in noosa for two weeks and I am wondering the boat will be out the water at night and then in the next day should I wash the hull down every night and would you flush it? ie when it is going to get used within 12hours

[MulletMan]

YES
YES
YES

[WHITTO]

I don't know what the water restrictions are up there, find out and be careful,could be an expensive exercise, Cheers Whitto ;) ;)

[tiges]

No water restrictions up here, shouldn't be a problem.

[2iar]

I can see the logic in flushing the motor after each day's trip, but why the need to wash the tinnie down each day? I'd do the trailer, but wouldn't stress too much about the boat myself - certainly not every day for a fortnight.

PP's a much more qualified boatie than I am of course - what's the reasoning mate?

Good luck,
Mike

[The_Walrus]

If I'm going to use my boat again the next day, I just give the trailer a good hose.

Can't see the need to wash down the boat or flush the engine.

Luc

[budge]

At the very least i would be flushing the motor and hosing down the moving parts of the trailer, 12 hours is easily enough time for residual salt to build up in places you don't want it to. Then if you wish or if water restrictions permit just give the hull and the rest of the trailer a quick wash down.

[DaveSue_Fishos_Two]

Give the trailer a hose down by all means after each and every time of use. But there is no need at all to flush the motor if you are going to be using it every day. Just have a look at the charter operators, crabbers etc who use theirs daily. The vast majority only flush out the engine if the boat is not going to be run for several days. Going on holidays or camping on islands etc for a few weeks will also see a lot of boats sitting in the water continuously. Motors are run regularly and do not need flushing out until they are no longer required for a while.
Washing down the boat would depend on how much of a mess you make in it, but there is no need to wash it down every day if it is pretty clean.
Sorry to disagree with you PP on this one!

Cheers
Dave

[MILTON]

Give boat and motor a good wash and flush its only the lazy people who dont look after their gear.

Cheers MILTON

[blaze]

Hi
To add my two bobs worth
A lot of boats that are put out to hire, rent a tinnie and the likes, never have there motors flushed. Used and abused on a regular basis, dont get a chance to dry out and cystalise the salt, there is no signs of the effect of doing this for years. Sometimes the best looked after motors have the worse problems.
What happens if you go and camp on an island for a fortnight with no fresh to flush, do you not go on the trip because ya cant flush.
Just use it, service it regular (key words), and keep on top of minor problems.
cheers
blaze

[DaveSue_Fishos_Two]

Not flushing your motor when it is going to be used within 12 hrs does not make someone a lazy person in my opinion. It screams to me of common sense.

Dave

[castlemaine]

Just spent the Easter weekend at Noosa River in a rented house. Two tinnies sat in the water for 6 days. Hosed trailer down asap and washed and flushed motor throughly when I got home to Brisbane. The neighbours on the river keep they boats just about permanently in the river. Can't remember when he flushed it out last and runs like a charm, but it's used every day to take him to work. What a life, but someone's got to live it!
Just for the record 8 muddies(keepers), 2 flathead(keepers), 6 bream(keepers), 1 shovel nose shark, 1 eel. Heaps of boats on the river and heaps of DH's and BBQ boats, positively dangerous. Boys in blue were out on the water and land ... got put on the bag twice.