Help seaweed issues

[Ronnie]

You can also try to jury rig a solution to keep you from getting in the water to clear the intake grate. I'm thinking a rake with a bent handle which would allow you work the obstruction from the back of the boat.

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

ok cool, everyone on this coast has seaweed problems, some years worse than others, just wait for the red tide to do a fish kill , that really takes some getting adjusted to. Rather than weeds you get fish in your pumps hundreds of them in floating masses.

 

[Sugarsand gary]

You can also try to jury rig a solution to keep you from getting in the water to clear the intake grate. I'm thinking a rake with a bent handle which would allow you work the obstruction from the back of the boat.

I think you are right I just put a mini rake with adjustable handle.in my car ready to try.thanks for your reply

 

[Bilmon]

Thanks for your reply Bruce I have a sugar sand I have not looked for a clean out but I will Monday.I am going to try again.I am bringing a mini rake.

No clean out port on the Merc. They used to make a " bent rake" like mentioned by@Ronnie

 

[Bilmon]

I wonder if the BRP motors use the plastic wear rings like SeaDoo does? My sons ski has been through 4 rings in 4 months of use. Sure the idea is great to have a sacrificial part outside of the impeller but those of us who have hit small wood debris and had them lodges we can get them out and keep motoring on, those same scraps on my sons ski render it almost inoperable from the gouge they create, the lost thrust etc. and each time we have had to disassemble the pump to free them and get a new ring. On my Yamaha, it was pull the plug, wiggle them out, reinstall the plug and party on...

The Merc's use an aluminum wear ring and stainless impeler all the Sugarsands were Mercury powered except for a small model they came out with about their last year that had a Weber engine, don't know how many ,if any, were sold

 

[Englewoodcowboy]

Just one more reason to like Yamaha I suppose.

 

[Sugarsand gary]

The Merc's use an aluminum wear ring and stainless impeler all the Sugarsands were Mercury powered except for a small model they came out with about their last year that had a Weber engine, don't know how many ,if any, were sold

Thank you for your reply

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

Oh yea another good reason to have clean out ports is on the trailer you can pull the clean out ports and use it for a small wood chipper.
Or you hate your neighbor's cat oh no Mr Bill.

 

[farrelltravis]

The Sugar Sand boats don't have a cleanout. The reverse trick will work on them though.

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

Yea he knows they don't because no boat builder in their right mind would allow access to the impeller . I love it .

 

[farrelltravis]

And - on the flip side of that - Sugar Sands had ZERO plug blowouts and ZERO plugs that got stuck.

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

Seriously I have an aluminum collapsible pole with a nylon coated long peg on the end that I keep in the front of my ski for the winter months when the water is super cold even below 70, that way I never have to get wet when I have heavy weeds in the intake grate. I just extent the handle and use the peg to extract the weeds, although I usually jump a big boat wake first since that usually gets the weeds out and it's more fun.

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

You just have to go back and read the entire thread, it's PROFOUND, dam Glassman that was a real jewel

 

[chris24]

Thanks for the link.I did the rev trick .maybe I did not go fast enough.now I know why you gave me a wise crack before .I am from Tom's river.just moved to Florida two years ago.

My wife moved Down here from New Jersey, she's from Brick.

 

[Geiger41]

Brick and Toms River is close to me. Im living in SOuthern Ocean County now...Tuckerton Beach, even though ther is no beach......go figure..Im from Gloucester City though (Camden County) Work in Atlantic County about 5 miles west of Atlantic City

 

[Sugarsand gary]

My wife moved Down here from New Jersey, she's from Brick.

My girl is from brick how does ehe like it.

 

[Sugarsand gary]

Brick and Toms River is close to me. Im living in SOuthern Ocean County now...Tuckerton Beach, even though ther is no beach......go figure..Im from Gloucester City though (Camden County) Work in Atlantic County about 5 miles west of Atlantic City

The only thing I miss ie 5he Jersey shore lots of good Times.I love going to see the b street band.thurs nights at the deck at the golden nuggets.we also have a timeshare in ac we can't sell.

 

[Julian]

@Cobra Jet Steering LLC do you use the rack to push the weeds forwards off the intake? Just trying to ensure @Sugarsand gary has the right approach and technique. How about a Cobrajetrake?

 

[Cobra Jet Steering LLC]

to pull them back out of the intake the end has just 1 rod about 5/16 of an inch diameter and 3.5 inches long so it can get in between the intake grate tines and pull out the weeds .

 

[Sugarsand gary]

@Cobra Jet Steering LLC do you use the rack to push the weeds forwards off the intake? Just trying to ensure @Sugarsand gary has the right approach and technique. How about a Cobrajetrake?