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Originally Posted by Biggd
Most fluids from your engine are lighter than water and are at the top. Your pump will eventually pump this into the lake. I can understand pulling away to drain your hull so you don't tie up the ramp but we are only fooling our selves to think that what's in our hull is not ending up in the lake anyway. It's up to boat owners to be aware of what's in your hull and repair any problems because those hull fluids will end up in the lake. I always drain my hull every time I take the boat back to my house just to see if anything other than water comes out.
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I appreciate your input and again I fully acknowledge and respect the intent of the law. Fact is, there is never anything in my bilge. I'm usually in salt water but when we boat on the lake, there will never be enough fluid of any kind to start the bilge pump. My outboard motor does not leak fluid anywhere, let alone into the bilge. My old 2-stroke engine only had 400 hrs on it but we repowered to a 4-stroke for a number of reasons. the most important being environmental concerns. It pleases us to know that the oil that was in the engine when we got to the lake all comes home with us.