Last year while sailing on a extended trip down the Chesapeake Bay, I was arriving into the my marina on the last day, about 400 yds away from my slip, my engine stalled. After going through the engine and did pretty much nothing to resolve it, the engine restarted and I motored into my slip. I had some nasty weather the last few days, pounding seas so I figured it was dirty fuel.
I replaced the fuel filters (Racor 10mil and Universal fuel filter on the engine), removed the diesel fuel from the tank, installed a access port in my tank and cleaned the tank by hand.
A few weeks ago while heading back from a sail, my engine did the same the thing and it eventually restarted and working fine to the slip. It was a fairly calm day - no waves and pounding seas.
One thing I notice on both incidents, I started to loss rpms and I had to increase my throttle to keep up with my speed up through the channel. Also when it restarted, it seemed fine.
I am debating to go through the same process I did last fall.
On previous sailboats, I never changed my fuel filters multiple times throughout the season, especially due to stalling out. I only changed them each spring and never had issues.
Any thoughts?
Keep changing my filters?
Change out my fuel?
Clean out my pick up line? (how?)
I replaced the fuel filters (Racor 10mil and Universal fuel filter on the engine), removed the diesel fuel from the tank, installed a access port in my tank and cleaned the tank by hand.
A few weeks ago while heading back from a sail, my engine did the same the thing and it eventually restarted and working fine to the slip. It was a fairly calm day - no waves and pounding seas.
One thing I notice on both incidents, I started to loss rpms and I had to increase my throttle to keep up with my speed up through the channel. Also when it restarted, it seemed fine.
I am debating to go through the same process I did last fall.
On previous sailboats, I never changed my fuel filters multiple times throughout the season, especially due to stalling out. I only changed them each spring and never had issues.
Any thoughts?
Keep changing my filters?
Change out my fuel?
Clean out my pick up line? (how?)