Who's first and when will you de-winterize

[Leroy]

I think it was about this time last year similar thread.

So who will be first to de-winterize? I'm planning last week of March if we take out boat to Alabama/Gulf coast over spring break. I'll probably need to put couple of the magnetic block warmers on as that is too early for Indy.

[milkmania]

I've already resisted the urge several times......but it's tough when the temp hits 70 degrees for the high one day, then 40 degrees for the high the next...

I've been strong so far:rant:

[bradamerry]

Late April for me. I have alot of stuff to do before I mess with that.

[bcampbe7]

I'm thinking mid-March. My parents are coming down during my little brothers spring break. Hpoefully it will be nice enough to take a ride. Probably won't get in the water though.

[nashvillematt]

I did it Monday. Ran her for a few hours and put her back in the slip. If the weather calls for a deep freeze, I just have to drain the block.

[MarkP]

Not me. As a matter of fact, this time last year I was saying, “I wish I had a boat”.

My boat is allowed to stay in the cave until the end of April. I do want it out a little early for the maintenance but I don’t want it to freeze and thaw a lot.

[Professor]

Boy, don't know if I really want to admit it but...I seldom need to winterize (heated garage and warm climate).

[MasterMason]

Boy, don't know if I really want to admit it but...I seldom need to winterize (heated garage and warm climate).


thats ok professor, winterization here means you need a wet suit or perhaps a dry suit.

[Leroy]

Which lake are you on Matt?

[BriEOD]

Mid to end of March. I was skiing in March last year with a wetsuit. This year I got a dry suit for Christmas. I've been busy every weekend doing maintenance. Soon, very soon...

[Robert Averyt]

Ditto here Master Mason.

We were in our swim trunks skiing Monday. Water temp of 66.

By the way how are those furthermores coming along?

[Hemey5]

Mid March if the ski Gods are with me.

[Leroy]

Professor and Mastermason; you kill me! I'm in the Golden state, Sacramento area for two weeks and always hard to go back to the deep freeze of Indy....

[Ski-A-Rees]

Maybe you should consider moving down south!! I'm I the only one who never stops skiing over winter! We have show ski practice in december and Shows in janurary all the way through may! I wanna cry listening to you guys!

[boatwake]

Wetsuit is ready, this time tomorrow the winterization will only be a memory. :D

[MasterMason]

Ditto here Master Mason.


By the way how are those furthermores coming along?


LMAO, there are just a few aren't there. Had the 3rd last night, I am going to the lodge down the road on monday to watch it. Found it was really benificial to see it right after you go yours. Plus I am my son's coach, so I need to learn it well.

[MasterMason]

Professor and Mastermason; you kill me! I'm in the Golden state, Sacramento area for two weeks and always hard to go back to the deep freeze of Indy....


Well, the next time your going to be here shoot me a note, I think we could arrange to get you on some liquid water.

[Robert Averyt]

as I recall --13

[Jim@BAWS]

"WINTERIZE" What kind of language is that?

Andre is the FRENCH "for get my boat ready?"

75 and rainy today Tampa FL

Jim@BAWS

[MasterMason]

Wow, I hadn't gotten to the point of counting them yet. But my coach, who is 84 and still delivers the long form lecture word perfect, will be working with me starting today, I am fairly certain I will have it down shortly.

[BrianM]

What is this winterizing you talk about? Been skiing all winter in a wetsuit. Winter for me just means two things:

1. No skiing after work during the week (dark)
2. No 95 degree water

I'll be on the lake tomorrow:D

[nashvillematt]

I am on Center Hill in Tennessee.

[east tx skier]

I dewinterized last Monday and hit the lake. High was 87 degrees. I didn't drain afterwards, but may have to (I'm watching the mercury as we'll se some more 30s at night). It's garaged and it takes a little more than 32 outside to freeze it inside.

[ChrisG]

"De-winterization" to me means taking off the cover and reconnecting the battery (boat goes in the garage here in California). Although, I'm dreading dropping the $600+ on my 100 hr service...

[André]

Beginning of may.



...and don't laugh!

[MasterMason]

Beginning of may.



...and don't laugh!


not laughing, but I hope to have a fairly decent tan by may

[Leroy]

Thank you very much, very kind Mastermason. I'm here now......and out ~every other week :eek:. Will PM.

Well, the next time your going to be here shoot me a note, I think we could arrange to get you on some liquid water.

[atlfootr]

So, who will be first to de-winterize? I'm planning last week of March.De-winterize? What are you guy's nuts?
Who has time for that :noface:
We "barefoot", here year round :D
And thank God, for Outboards! :worthy:

[Leroy]

Was guessing there or Dale Hollow with your 50 mile test ride. Love both of those lakes. Spent a lot of time at Edgar Evans.



I am on Center Hill in Tennessee.

[whitedog]

Be mid April for me as the water will be liquid by then.

[Nova Scotia Skier]

The ice should melt by April 20th area. Within 1 week the boat will be in the water and we will run at least 1 set.5mm shorty suit with 2mm jacket. This is how bad I wanna go! Cold is only a state of mind. :D

[jsonova99]

The boat is always ready to go down here, but the weather hasn't been too kind lately, except last weekend, but we headed up to Daytona for the 500, and of course this weekend is rainy again! :mad:

[sfitzgerald351]

Unforetunately (or fortunately as the case may be) I might not get the boat unbuttoned this year until July! I'm finishing up my degree down at Yale and with crew races and hockey tournaments (I'm on both B-school teams) I don't have a free weekend until May. And then I'm getting married so you know that I don't get a free weekend between wedding stuff and graduation. Thank god dewinterizing is quick so I can go out if I do get the chance. But the cool part is that we're headed to Europe for 5 weeks starting the beginning of June and will be getting out on the water there a bit as we are going to bareboat around the Ionian islands in Greece for part of the trip. So waiting till July to get the MC fired up isn't so bad I guess....

[Leroy]

Wow! Congratulations Scott!


You really have exciting things going on, post some threads and pix of all when you get a chance!

[sfitzgerald351]

Wow! Congratulations Scott!


You really have exciting things going on, post some threads and pix of all when you get a chance!

Absolutely! Untiil then, check out my last crazy trip from when I graduated from grad school for the first time (and yes I like avoiding work....) http://www.scottfitzgerald.name/Alaska/

[Kell]

Scott, what an incredible adventure and some pretty spectacular photos that you took in Alaska. So how many miles did you put on that Bronco? And you'll have to fess up about Pat Obriens!

[east tx skier]

I went to Alaska when I was sixteen and it remains one of the best trips I've ever taken. The ski plane that landed on Mt. McKinnley was amazing.

[BriEOD]

Awesome Scott!! How long did that trip take? I've been to Fairbanks twice. It's a pretty neat place but the mosquitos are like small birds!

[Evan Jones]

Ice comes out usually in April sometime. We've skiied in March before among the ice chunks. Hopefully it will be an early spring here in Western Massachusetts. I've got a new boat lift I'm dying to set up, and I just did a few tune-up things on the boat I haven't done before and I'm anxious to see if they made any difference in the performance.

[mitch]

Evan, I hope spring comes early. Ain't looking good so far. foot plus tonight, a little less out your way...What a drag!

[SteveO]

She got a fresh coat of wax this weekend and will be in the water next Friday or Saturday. This may be the longest week of my life.....but worth the wait

[Hemey5]

I as asked to go out this weekend. Water was 43 degrees, no sun to give little warmth
I had to pass on the offer

[rasmithaz]

[QUOTE=Jim@BAWS]"WINTERIZE" What kind of language is that?

' Winterize' as defined in the Arizona dictionary: Put a long sleeve shirt on instead of a t-shirt so you won't get chilly when your in the weather.

[sfitzgerald351]

I took off from June until November for that trip to Alaska. Drove from Boston up to Alaska and back via Key West Florida and a few other places that were definitely "not on the way" :D . I put about 40,000 miles on the truck during that time. I was sure glad that was the summer where gas was less than $1.00 / gallon just about everywhere (1998). I still have the truck. Just turned 190,000 miles last night. Still runs great, but is starting to rust and rattle a bit. Still, it's WAY cheaper to keep this one running than to get a new one. As for Fairbanks it was great. We really enjoyed going north up to the Brooks range. It's unforetunate that most people won't head up there to see it themselves. Wide open space for as far as you care to walk. It's weird just heading out into the wilderness with no trails. You can't even compare it to anything in the lower 48. Denali was cool, but the Brooks were way more interesting (and a lot less crowded!) Prudhoe Bay was disapointing. It's a big industrial wasteland and you can't even get to the water without paying the oil company for a 'tour'. On public land no less. I understand keeping people out of the working areas for safety reasons, etc... but gating off a large portion of public land with nothing on it is ridiculous. I was fortunate the year I was there that there were NO mosquitos. I don't think I pulled out the bug spray the entire time I was in Alaska, the Yukon or the Northwest territories. Apparently they had a weird thaw/freeze cycle that spring that killed most everything off. Not that I was complaining!

[mika]

Well I will not be de-winterizing any time soon :cry:

Supposed to get something like 6 or 7 inches of snow in Michigan today and the next. It is April yet?

[86PowerSlot190MC]

' Winterize' as defined in the Arizona dictionary: Put a long sleeve shirt on instead of a t-shirt so you won't get chilly when your in the weather.

I can relate to that, we where skiing on Lake Powell over thanks giving. The water was 67 deg F, weather was a bit chilly out of the water, but we still had many hours of skiing with no one else around!!! We'll be returning this May

:dance: :toast:

[edwin]

Have had the boat out 5 times so far. Was out yesterday getting in a few sets on the new ski, water was a balmy 36.3. Going again this Saturday in St. Louis if anyone's interested.

[Leroy]

According to the USCG you have something less than an hour at that temp....



Have had the boat out 5 times so far. Was out yesterday getting in a few sets on the new ski, water was a balmy 36.3. Going again this Saturday in St. Louis if anyone's interested.

[Leroy]

How do you do this Edwin?

[Jim]

Sorry, no need here in So. Cal. Going out this weekend with a full.
Oh so sweet.

[86PowerSlot190MC]

Sorry, no need here in So. Cal. Going out this weekend with a full.
Oh so sweet.

Except for that bloody rain!!!!!! :mad: Had re-roof the house this weekend and it didn’t even rain today!!!!!!! :rant: I hate the weather forecasters!!!!! :mad: :rant:

[BriEOD]

I took off from June until November for that trip to Alaska. Drove from Boston up to Alaska and back via Key West Florida and a few other places that were definitely "not on the way" :D . I put about 40,000 miles on the truck during that time. I was sure glad that was the summer where gas was less than $1.00 / gallon just about everywhere (1998). I still have the truck. Just turned 190,000 miles last night. Still runs great, but is starting to rust and rattle a bit. Still, it's WAY cheaper to keep this one running than to get a new one. As for Fairbanks it was great. We really enjoyed going north up to the Brooks range. It's unforetunate that most people won't head up there to see it themselves. Wide open space for as far as you care to walk. It's weird just heading out into the wilderness with no trails. You can't even compare it to anything in the lower 48. Denali was cool, but the Brooks were way more interesting (and a lot less crowded!) Prudhoe Bay was disapointing. It's a big industrial wasteland and you can't even get to the water without paying the oil company for a 'tour'. On public land no less. I understand keeping people out of the working areas for safety reasons, etc... but gating off a large portion of public land with nothing on it is ridiculous. I was fortunate the year I was there that there were NO mosquitos. I don't think I pulled out the bug spray the entire time I was in Alaska, the Yukon or the Northwest territories. Apparently they had a weird thaw/freeze cycle that spring that killed most everything off. Not that I was complaining!

Yeah I went to Fairbanks twice. Actually to Eielson AFB. North of the base their is a large bombing range the AF uses. As is the norm for all ranges they have to be cleared and the targets rebuilt every so often. So they send in EOD guys to clear the duds. We just blow them in place. The range is in a really isolated location, no roads. We took helicopters in and we sling loaded SUS-V's (big sweedish tracked vehicles that go in water, anything) and Go-tracks (another similar vehicle) with camping gear, explosives and all other equipment. We would spend 2-3 weeks out clearing the targets. Every 3 or 4 days a UH-60 would pick someone up for a supply/beer run. It was really a beautiful place. The only things I didn't like was taking a bath. I was there both times in July but it still hit 40's at night. We camped right on a crystal clear creek. So you lathered up and than dove into the water for a split second and then ran to the fire to warm up. The water was in the 40's it was also our beer cooler! The second thing was the footing. A lot of the terrain looked liked those mushrooms off of the super mario bros game. It was impossible to walk on. Also, we didn't find a lot of ordnance because it would hit the ground and bury under the tundra in the ice. I've got some photos somewhere. A great trip and I got paid for it!

[edwin]

I wear a drysuit w/ some insulated clothes. To put on the ski, soak the bindings with hot water from the hot water shower...do the same with the gloves. Some wear a wetsuit hood, I didn't this past weekend.

Have the rope ready to go, drop in and get pulled up...max time in the water is 30 seconds. Go for a run. Get out, rinse again with the hot water shower. Dry off your hands, feet, and head.

Get in boat, put on stocking cap and sit close to the 3 outlet heater. Not for everyone, but I enjoy it.



How do you do this Edwin?