Sea Strainer

[mcbean7]

Hi guys.

Certain times of the year our lake has a lot of crap floating around. On our last boat (DD) we sucked up some crap and clogged the tranny cooler resulting in overheating and shredding an impeller. I ended up installing a sea strainer to help keep crap out of the engine and it worked pretty well.

I remember looking at an 09 SAN 210 at the boat show and saw they had a sea strainer installed. The sales guy says they came standard on those boats. I thought it was a great idea.

I'd like to do the same with my new boat (06 VLX). My question is how many of you added a sea strainer to your engine? Also, where did you mount it to? There's not much room back there.

Pics would be great.

Thanks in advance.

[ed obermeier]

I had one on my previous boat and I was often surprised at the crap that would show up in it (twigs, leaves, small hunks of styrofoam etc). I'm intending to put one on this boat as well; anyone have a good suggestion on where to get one aftermarket? I think it would be money well spent and I don't know why it isn't standard issue.

Ed

[Tao of Wake]

Hi guys.

Certain times of the year our lake has a lot of crap floating around. On our last boat (DD) we sucked up some crap and clogged the tranny cooler resulting in overheating and shredding an impeller. I ended up installing a sea strainer to help keep crap out of the engine and it worked pretty well.

I remember looking at an 09 SAN 210 at the boat show and saw they had a sea strainer installed. The sales guy says they came standard on those boats. I thought it was a great idea.

I'd like to do the same with my new boat (06 VLX). My question is how many of you added a sea strainer to your engine? Also, where did you mount it to? There's not much room back there.

Pics would be great.

Thanks in advance.

I had the dealer install one on my boat as part of the purchase. My lake isn't that ridden with debris, but I thought it a good idea in case I take my boat to other lakes. It is mounted in the bilge area toward the stern on the port side. Sorry, no pictures and my boat is 3 1/2 hours away.

[davemac]

I bought my boat used (originating from a lake in upstate NY...that I presume may have had weeds). It has a strainer that fits easily in the bilge that looks like this one (I happened to see earlier today). Seems like a reasonable price...

Bakes strainer

Edited March 27, 2009 by davemac

[mcbean7]

I had one on my previous boat and I was often surprised at the crap that would show up in it (twigs, leaves, small hunks of styrofoam etc). I'm intending to put one on this boat as well; anyone have a good suggestion on where to get one aftermarket? I think it would be money well spent and I don't know why it isn't standard issue.

Ed

I totally agree. I found all sorts of interesting stuff in my strainer too (wood chips, leaves, weeds). That's why I'd like to get this thing installed on my new boat.

[NorCaliBu]

Use the word "strainer" in the Search function. This has been discussed multiple times in the past. One of the threads has pictures from my install (but mine is on a DD). As long as you have it apart...put a shut-off valve at the water intake thru-hull.