Boating in the Brine

[jpmurphy]

Planning a move to the Florida Keys so naturally I am looking at all kinds of boats. Both fresh and salt water. Question: what needs to be done to the engine/cooling systems when putting a fresh water boat into salt water? The same question pops up when putting a salt water boat into fresh water ? I've always been a fresh water fisherman (outboards) so I know nothing about salt water boat engines (inboards) and their various systems.

 

[Bondo]

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[Chris1956]

Gee, other than the hype from advertising, and a few more stainless steel parts on "saltwater outboards", there is no difference. No difference at all on a lot of sterndrives and inboards. The owner needs to do more maintenance on salty boats.

You can get a fresh-water cooling (FWC) system for sterndrives. It has it good points, but does cost a good deal more. The blocks tend to last long enough in fresh or salt water, but the FWC manifolds will last longer than RWC manifolds.

 

[jpmurphy]

That clears up the mystery for me. Thanks for taking the time to reply.