Today I winterized my boat, ran her into the shoals near my dock and then they began draining the canal. By morning she'll be resting probably about 25-30 degrees off kilter for the winter and all will be well. When pouring antifreeze into the generator engine, I always had the problem of not being able to get a steady pour into the water strainer and having the pump suck air and loose suction. So today I tried something different: Went to the hardware store and got a 2" thread "pipe nipple". That's a short piece of standard black pipe, threaded on both ends. The strainer ARG-750 takes the standard pipe threads so it fit in nicely where the cap goes. This allowed me to pour a lot more anti-freeze into the strainer so it never ran dry or lost suction. This also prevented most of the usual spillage. Different strainers take different thread sizes, but all are readily available and cheap at Home Depot and all hardware stores. It cost 6 bucks. It works great, try it. Happy winter ... Fred Tug 44

For years now I use an upside down traffic cone with a hole in the top.It fits all strainers and you can fill it up with all the antifreeze it can hold and fill some more when the engine is started. Albert > On Nov 18, 2015, at 3:47 PM, "fred@tug44.org" <fred@tug44.org> wrote: > > > > Today I winterized my boat, ran her into the shoals near my dock and then > they began draining the canal. By morning she'll be resting probably about > 25-30 degrees off kilter for the winter and all will be well. > > When pouring antifreeze into the generator engine, I always had the > problem of not being able to get a steady pour into the water strainer and > having the pump suck air and loose suction. So today I tried something > different: > > Went to the hardware store and got a 2" thread "pipe nipple". That's a > short piece of standard black pipe, threaded on both ends. The strainer > ARG-750 takes the standard pipe threads so it fit in nicely where the cap > goes. This allowed me to pour a lot more anti-freeze into the strainer so > it never ran dry or lost suction. This also prevented most of the usual > spillage. > > Different strainers take different thread sizes, but all are readily > available and cheap at Home Depot and all hardware stores. It cost 6 > bucks. > > It works great, try it. > > Happy winter ... > > Fred > Tug 44 > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/listinfo/great-loop_lists.trawlering.com > > To modify your Great-Loop subscription options (change email address, > unsubscribe, etc.) go to: http://lists.trawlering.com/mailman/options/great-loop_lists.trawlering.com