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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