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...and nothing bad happened.
No flooding of the engine, nothing detrimental, and the Spark ran fine after being towed by a 20ft Crownliner at about 5kts for half a mile or so.
Manual says max tow speed is 13kts and you should clamp off "the hose" water supply.
Never got a chance to clamp a hose. And even if I did have a chance didn't have any. My two Sparks berthed off a Crownliner 20 we were using as a mother ship. I'd gone for a quick jaunt. Coming back I see the mothership motoring with the Spark in tow. My first thought was oh ****. But what can you do it was already being towed and our friend had to move his 20 footer out of the shallows to deeper water.
After move/towing operations were done. I checked the towed Spark and nothing apparent was wrong. It ran great.
So with my exp I guess towing a Spark can be done if you have to without clamping the water supply hose.
No flooding of the engine, nothing detrimental, and the Spark ran fine after being towed by a 20ft Crownliner at about 5kts for half a mile or so.
Manual says max tow speed is 13kts and you should clamp off "the hose" water supply.
Never got a chance to clamp a hose. And even if I did have a chance didn't have any. My two Sparks berthed off a Crownliner 20 we were using as a mother ship. I'd gone for a quick jaunt. Coming back I see the mothership motoring with the Spark in tow. My first thought was oh ****. But what can you do it was already being towed and our friend had to move his 20 footer out of the shallows to deeper water.
After move/towing operations were done. I checked the towed Spark and nothing apparent was wrong. It ran great.
So with my exp I guess towing a Spark can be done if you have to without clamping the water supply hose.