Hand cranking a Yanmar 3Gm30

[tom_sail]

Why bother? Do you use a starting handle on your car? No - it wont even take one because the starter motor is so reliable.

Just equip the boat with a decent engine only battery and throw the handle in the bin.

Staring handles! Pah! next thing you'll be using sextants, galvanised rigging, gaff rig, wooden hulls and baggy wrinckle. And walking down the pontoon wearing sea boots and with a nicely judged roll. Ahoy there me hearties.

Even if I start with the starter motor I still give a few slow spins with the handle. In my eyes it lubricates the cylinder walls.

 

[Spyro]

? It's a diesel.

You'll need to turn it on once it's started to silence the buzzer so why not do it beforehand.

 

[Simondjuk]

Why bother? Do you use a starting handle on your car? No - it wont even take one because the starter motor is so reliable.

Just equip the boat with a decent engine only battery and throw the handle in the bin.

Staring handles! Pah! next thing you'll be using sextants, galvanised rigging, gaff rig, wooden hulls and baggy wrinckle. And walking down the pontoon wearing sea boots and with a nicely judged roll. Ahoy there me hearties.

I guess you've never had a starter lunch itself when you could use a battery top up whilst on passage then.

 

[vyv_cox]

Even if I start with the starter motor I still give a few slow spins with the handle. In my eyes it lubricates the cylinder walls.

Unfortunately not. The cylinder walls on most engines are lubricated by a squirt of oil from either the big-end or small end bearing. Full oil pressure is needed for this to happen. Even if it is possible to start the engine manually I doubt very much whether you could generate any oil pressure.