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Atomic 4 in Tartan 30
I put the transmission in fwd to stop the rotation of the prop. The shaft is marked so I can align the prop vertically behind the keel, which is just in front of the prop. In 25 yrs I've never snagged anything on the prop while sailing - a few times under power.
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- When sailing, what do you do with your engine transmission? Reverse/Neut/what?
- Yanmar advise's to put it in reverse when sailing...
- I put mine in reverse but I have folding prop
- Atomic 4 in Tartan 30
- I put mine in reverse..
- I put mine in forward - Autoprop...
- Here's the official word from Yanmar
- Wow, that changes everything. Thanks
- That's odd - it is exactly opposite from what the distributor told me to do
- Whir, whir, whir, whir,whir, whir, whir, whir,
- Yanmar advise's to put it in reverse when sailing...