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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...
    • Thanks... I didn't really see this recommendation anywhere in the manual...
  • I put mine in reverse but I have folding prop
    • reverse to fold the prop, then neutral
      • I have a MaxProp feathering prop and I do what Tim does ... Cheers, John
    • Into reverse to fold the prop, hang the key on gear shift to remember before restarting engine
      • Why would you leave the gear in reverse?
        • If you don't have a feathering or folding prop, then the prop will start to free wheel (unless you're going too slow).
          • My response was to a poster who has a folding prop.
            • Ahh, I didn't notice that :^)
        • Here's what Hurth says
          • folding prop
        • I leave it in reverse out of habit
  • Atomic 4 in Tartan 30
  • I put mine in reverse..
    • What Todd says!!!
  • I put mine in forward - Autoprop...
  • Here's the official word from Yanmar
    • Wow, that changes everything. Thanks
      • As you hear your prop free wheeling ... remember, Yanmar takes no responsiblity for your cutlass bearing, shaft seal/
        • but with the gear in reverse it's a brake.
          • Doesn't make any sense to me either. If in reverse it's stopped. Free-wheeling's got to be worse for the tranny.
          • It is a brake -- but not a real brake
            • I have to do that
      • I spoke w/ Mack Boring (after trying the Yanmar number and being referred) -- Surprise, to me...
        • Crappy engineering
          • This is why I like the Hurth transmission....
            • Curious about "Tyr that with a Yanmar"
              • Most Yanmars actually have a Kanzaki transmission...
              • I suppose they vary by engine model
    • That's odd - it is exactly opposite from what the distributor told me to do
    • Whir, whir, whir, whir,whir, whir, whir, whir,