Moving to FL with a freshwater boat

[Chris1956]

Re: Moving to FL with a freshwater boat

Now Bruce, you know the salt water in florida is much worse than the saltwater in NJ or CA. Floridians have many more issues, that us northerners just don't understand...Clearly Kahuna is the only one who knows the true issues. The rest of us are mere amateurs.

 

[Samvq1]

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I haven't been there in a long time. I only boated on the river. I saw tournament boats and runabouts of all sizes. I did not see large cruisers that I recall. It's been about 20 years since I was there.

 

[CheapboatKev]

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Lord...

Salt water is not sulfuric acid people..:facepalm:

 

[Philster]

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Listen, the annual laugh-your-as$-off-at-Floridian-boaters thread is coming this spring. I'll open the thread. It'll be about cracked blocks and stories of how a 60w lightbulb didn't stop their engine blocks from cracking.

Florida has higher salt content in some areas. Floridians also have fewer wetted hours for their boats than you'd think. They do like 'em their lifts down there.

I don't know where this FLA. machismo comes from, but I guess when you're surrounded by old, paranoid doomsdayers everything becomes a goshdarn exercise in panic.

Take the boat there and care for it.

Puh-lease, there are boats up north that spend WAY more time in salt, battling Nor' Easers and freezing temps and conditions that will make all the purdy Floridians cringe. Boats get battered and salt and wind beat them silly up here -- SILLY I TELL YA. Go fishing in December in a center console with a Nor' Easter brewing.. and this thing ISN'T kept on a lift the whole time it exists. Northern folk know what a weather beating is, and so do their boats. They gets salt in places Floridians are scared to think about.

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[Home Cookin']

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On the Eastern Shore of Virginia, there is the Chesapeake Bay and 10 miles away, the Atlantic Ocean. Both are salt water. But you can pull the cowl off a motor and tell in a glance whether a boat is a seaside boat or a bay boat.

Those marks on a freighter's bow mark how it will float in various waters, from tropical fresh, tropical salt, cold water salt, etc. as the salinity affects bouyancy that much--a loaded boat steaming down from Newfoundland, across the equator and into the Amazon will ride differently from one place to another. Not that it affects the typical iBoat boat; just a point I find interesting.

 

[cribber]

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Lord...

Salt water is not sulfuric acid people..:facepalm:

Exactly... just rinse it all down at the end of the day and flush the engine with fresh water and enjoy your time on the water. If you intend on keeping it moored in salt water then have the bottom painted with anti-fouling paint is all ya need to worry about.

 

[V153]

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Listen, the annual laugh-your-as$-off-at-Floridian-boaters thread is coming this spring. I'll open the thread. It'll be about cracked blocks and stories of how a 60w lightbulb didn't stop their engine blocks from cracking.

Florida has higher salt content in some areas. Floridians also have fewer wetted hours for their boats than you'd think. They do like 'em their lifts down there.

I don't know where this FLA. machismo comes from, but I guess when you're surrounded by old, paranoid doomsdayers everything becomes a goshdarn exercise in panic.

Take the boat there and care for it.

Puh-lease, there are boats up north that spend WAY more time in salt, battling Nor' Easers and freezing temps and conditions that will make all the purdy Floridians cringe. Boats get battered and salt and wind beat them silly up here -- SILLY I TELL YA. Go fishing in December in a center console with a Nor' Easter brewing.. and this thing ISN'T kept on a lift the whole time it exists. Northern folk know what a weather beating is, and so do their boats. They gets salt in places Floridians are scared to think about.

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Yo Phil, why the hate. Have a bad experience in FLA perhaps? Geez ...!

Fwiw the "Floridians" you describe sound like snowbirds. Hardcore crackers 'wet' their boats all the time. Year round.

Not to dis a noreaster but ya might wanna reserve judgement 'til after you've ridden out a hurricane?

 

[Philster]

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Dude, you don't even want to go there. Nor 'Easters own hurricanes. In terms of what Nor' Easters have wrought upon the Eastern Seaboard, hurricanes are mere novelties. Be pre-warned: I've been 'round this one before. I believe the last time I argued this one was with a weather channel researcher who just about cried.

Wind duration over water and where and how Nor' Easters form and how long they batter an area. There's your 101-level research.

Nothing against Floridians. I usually only flash any wrath when one of 'em talks down to a Northerner.

 

[jimh1626]

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Looks like the Civil War didn't end. Good God, get in your boats and relax a little and you will feel much better.

 

[zagger]

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North, South - fudge crackers! You guys have nothing. Out here in the farrrr west we have Santa Ana winds! I mean like last year I got chapped lips after applying chap stick, now that is horror! Lol.

 

[Philster]

Re: Moving to FL with a freshwater boat

Florida is not part of "The South".

 

[jimh1626]

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Florida is not part of "The South".

Really? Ok Captain.
On January 10, 1861, Florida seceded as well. It became a separate state from the Union. By February, Florida and six other southern states had formed a new government, the Confederate States of America. Four other states joined a month later. The Confederate states were South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, and Arkansas. Jefferson Davis, from Mississippi, was elected President and Montgomery, Alabama was selected as the capital, though it was soon moved to Richmond, Virginia.Union troops refused to leave Fort Pickens when Florida seceded from the Union.

 

[V153]

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North, South - fudge crackers! You guys have nothing. Out here in the farrrr west we have Santa Ana winds! I mean like last year I got chapped lips after applying chap stick, now that is horror! Lol.

Reckon that'd make ya double chapped? Yikes! Look out!! Heh heh heh

 

[Philster]

Re: Moving to FL with a freshwater boat

Really? Ok Captain.
On January 10, 1861, Florida seceded as well. It became a separate state from the Union. By February, Florida and six other southern states had formed a new government, the Confederate States of America. Four other states joined a month later. The Confederate states were South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, and Arkansas. Jefferson Davis, from Mississippi, was elected President and Montgomery, Alabama was selected as the capital, though it was soon moved to Richmond, Virginia.Union troops refused to leave Fort Pickens when Florida seceded from the Union.

You don't get it, so to speak.

 

[jimh1626]

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You don't get it, so to speak.

No I guess I don't. Kind of slow like that I guess.

 

[Philster]

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Well, where ya from?

 

[jimh1626]

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Born here, but I still don't get it.

 

[SDSeville]

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My lips got chapped today... Nice Santa Anas...

 

[CheapboatKev]

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As a transplanted Socal guy..
I assure you Florida is part of the "south".

However..none of this state flag waiving has a dammm thing to do with the Ops question.

 

[V153]

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However..none of this state flag waiving has a dammm thing to do with the Ops question.

Yeah but it is great entertainment. Funny how long memories last. I have customers who're still fighting WWII? Try talkin' them outa it ...