De winterized and ready for the water!!

[john from md]

Ever since we got a 70 deg day in March I have been iching to get my boat ready for the water. I was able to get my lower back on (I pulled it to repair a broken bolt from way back) but then I had to go on the road until yesterday.

I spent most of yesterday and all of today getting the battery in, (those Maxx 29 batterys are heavy! ), checking everything and then running the fogging oil out. The only thing I need to do is drop my idle down as it is running at 1500 on neutral idle. I'll get that done tomorrow and then its look out fish, here I come.

John

 

[boat1010]

Re: De winterized and ready for the water!!

I have been waiting for a while. The 22nd we had 75deg weather the next day we had a blizzard. It has been cold ever since. They are saying we might get a foot of snow tonight. Hell it just had the wait till spring to snow Really looking forward to summer.

 

[john from md]

Re: De winterized and ready for the water!!

I was just in Oklahoma for a couple of weeks and it went from warm and spring like to a blizzard and low temps back to the sixties and thunder storms in a matter of four days. What a nightmare. I was glad to get back to the cold east coast!!!

John

 

[bman1bpm]

Re: De winterized and ready for the water!!

I want to get back on the water! I need to get my transom done so I can hang the motor back on the boat and go!

 

[john from md]

Re: De winterized and ready for the water!!

Well don't just talk about it. Do it!

BTW, I like the hat. When I was a kid in the fifties, all my uncles wore them when they took our boats out.
Funny, I can't keep my hats from blowing off the boat no matter what. I wonder how they kept theirs on?
Probably all the Dippity Doo and VO5 stuff we used to comb our hair with.

John

 

[chitownborn]

Re: De winterized and ready for the water!!

hey john, dont forget vitalis, lets get these boats on the water!!

 

[bman1bpm]

Re: De winterized and ready for the water!!

Thanks, I bought it down at an ocean city boardwalk junk store because I thought it would go well with the 1964 boat. I found the original sales brochure for the boat online and the guy in the captain's chair was wearing the same hat, so I guess I was right!

Boat project is coming along, I'm a student so I only get to work on it on the weekend. Got a lot done yesterday with the nice weather. Its coming along.

Enjoy your time on the water!