Best method for push starting a boat.

[Bubba1235]

Which way would you do it?






Ok, it's still winter and I am bored to death!

 

[QC]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

Personally, I'd get a big crane and tow it up a waterfall. In gear of course.

 

[rbh]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

HAHAHAHAHA, second or third gear before you dump the clutch.

 

[haulnazz15]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

Just wrap a pull-cord around the prop and put it in gear. Can't be too hard to pull start a Merc from the prop.

 

[QC]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

Come to think of it, my method is pull starting. Never mind.

 

[smokeonthewater]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

push start it in the ice... it's thicker than water so you get less slip and you can make frozen beverages with the newly chopped ice

 

[mphy98]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

I would get the guide to spin the prop as fast as he could, then ram it into gear!

That's the redneck way!

 

[Utahboatnut]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

Easy, remove belts wrap ski handle section around crank pully and let er rip. I pull started a 200 horse evinrude once does that count?

 

[rjlipscomb]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

Can't you crank start it just like those old airplanes?

 

[Bondo]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

Ayuh,.... I'd Fix it,+ turn the Key.......

 

[rjlipscomb]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

Ayuh,.... I'd Fix it,+ turn the Key.......

Why? What fun would that be?

 

[Campylobacter]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

OK, that was weird, I just assumed I'd be the only voting. I'm in the majority tho!

 

[BTMCB]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

It has been a long time since I last had to push start so I forget how the admiral did it. She was out of breathe tho.

 

[QC]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

I tried to get Mrs. QC to hoist the boat up the waterfall, that's how I know you need a crane . . .

 

[Yepblaze]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

Check your manual.

Don't be lazy or cheap.

Buy a manual.

And read it.

 

[Triton II]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

Put a tyre around the prop and tow it with the leg lowered and the motor fully turned to starboard. Fix up a gravity feed waterline from a garbage bin to the muffs. Get tow vehicle up to speed and then ignition on, dump her into forward. Once started, select neutral and leg up. Let her warm up, tyre off and then and back her into the ramp.

PS: Practice first on someone else's!

 

[kenmyfam]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

You are all incorrect.... you have to be on a lake with a slope on it and let it roll by itself downhill. Drop the clutch and away you go !!!!

 

[rjlipscomb]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

Put a tyre around the prop and tow it with the leg lowered and the motor fully turned to starboard. Fix up a gravity feed waterline from a garbage bin to the muffs. Get tow vehicle up to speed and then ignition on, dump her into forward. Once started, select neutral and leg up. Let her warm up, tyre off and then and back her into the ramp.

PS: Practice first on someone else's!

Okay, I'm on a level lake and cannot just let it role down hill. So, where do I get a ... what? a TYRE? and tow whatever is around the prop with the... what lowered? the LEG? I think I get the rest of it. But I'm still so confused... I need a drink, a stiff drink. Thankfully it's still winter and I have time to figure this out.

 

[Woodnaut]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

I can't believe I just sat here and read all of these. Aye carumba.

 

[northernmerc]

Re: Best method for push starting a boat.

Just put a second motor that runs on the boat, get it up to speed, and then drop the clutch on the first motor. Easy as pie.