Water system winterization question

Cableguy Greg

This is my first year with a cruiser, and I have winterized my boat. I went thru the water system by dumping pink in the fresh water tank and ran pink thru all of the lines. The question is, I have used the city water connection all summer while at the dock. There is about 8 feet of water line that I can see from the connection to the rest of the system. I did not run pink thru that section of the system. Should I connect an external bilge pump in a bucket and run pink thru it, or will it be fine. I have heard that it will be fine, but I don't want to find out the hard way in the spring that I should have ran pink thru it.

Michael T

Good question. I was at the winterization for my 360 and I don't think my tech did anything. I'll ask today. My friend takes the spray nozzle off, has a 99 cent funnel that he sticks into the hose end and pours about 6 oz of the non-toxioc pink through.....but, like me, he's ocd. I'll ask my marina and let's see what the guys on here do. Good call CG! BTW my tech did not run pink through my raw water pump. I think he forgot. When I reminded him he blew air through it and said it will be fine - we'll see. MT

Dream_Inn

Usually the stern shower is close enough to get pink back there. I never had an issue with my 310 doing that. I now blow air thru it using the city hookup before running pink thru.

howardrams

walmart sells a nice portable air tank which is great for blowing a little air through that fitting without needed electricity or your compressor.  blow it out or put pink in.

pepmyster

Pink for us also. Ran through the whole system, I blew air through the city hook up also.

Cableguy Greg

Since we are supposed to get a freeze this week, I ran pink thru the city hook up just to be safe.