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Hi! New to the forum here.. I recently acquired a beautiful '02 Air Nautique. As I'm beginning to get familiar with the boat, I've got a few questions about the factory ballast setup.
It appears one of the previous owners "welded" the ball valve closed on the starboard side. I believe this to be the case, because I cannot open the valve and there is no hose/piping coming off the valve. I did end up capping that off, just for good measure. What is odd to me is the starboard side ballast was re-routed to the port side pump. It would seem to me, that is a lot more work than just replacing the starboard side pump (if that at one point went bad)... any ideas why that would have been done?
Also, both ballasts have a red hose coming off the bottom of the ballast. The red hoses are not the fill nor the drain lines (as I traced those hoses to confirm). I traced each red hose and they are just capped off under the engine. I can't find a reference for these hoses anywhere... Any idea what those are for? Alternate drains for winterization?
It appears one of the previous owners "welded" the ball valve closed on the starboard side. I believe this to be the case, because I cannot open the valve and there is no hose/piping coming off the valve. I did end up capping that off, just for good measure. What is odd to me is the starboard side ballast was re-routed to the port side pump. It would seem to me, that is a lot more work than just replacing the starboard side pump (if that at one point went bad)... any ideas why that would have been done?
Also, both ballasts have a red hose coming off the bottom of the ballast. The red hoses are not the fill nor the drain lines (as I traced those hoses to confirm). I traced each red hose and they are just capped off under the engine. I can't find a reference for these hoses anywhere... Any idea what those are for? Alternate drains for winterization?