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reverse to fold the prop, then neutral
In Response To: I put mine in reverse but I have folding prop 
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() If my folding prop doesn't fold on it's own but rather keeps spinning, I'll throw the transmission into reverse to get the prop to fold, and then put the transmission back into neutral.
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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
- reverse to fold the prop, then neutral
- Into reverse to fold the prop, hang the key on gear shift to remember before restarting engine
- 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...