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My response was to a poster who has a folding prop. 
In Response To: If you don't have a feathering or folding prop, then the prop will start to free wheel (unless you're going too slow). ()
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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
- 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.
- My response was to a poster who has a folding prop.
- Here's what Hurth says
- I leave it in reverse out of habit
- If you don't have a feathering or folding prop, then the prop will start to free wheel (unless you're going too slow).
- Why would you leave the gear in reverse?
- 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...