Re: Will boat in water freeze?
GK, it sounds like you are probably in GA or Tenn. If so, what is the water temp, mid 60's or so? <br /><br />If so, I bet you run VERY little risk of damage from freezing at temps in the 20's with your boat sitting in the water. Still, thats easy for me to say that when it's your boat, lol. <br /><br />Actually, I live in NC and faced the same issue a couple of weeks ago. I've got an I/O and min temp was forecast at 27 degrees; lake temp was low 70's. I've got a covered boathouse with open sides and didn't put the boat in the water, but did lower the lift to just above it. I've got one of those electronic thermometers that captures max and min temps about 7 feet above the water. It registered an overnight min of 32. Obviously the closer to the water the warmer the min temp would be, so I had a larger margin than that. Thats about as close as I'd cut it without either draining or actually putting my boat in the water, though. <br /><br />An interesting experiment would be to use 2 of those electronic thermometers and see how big a difference there was between the minimum temp in the engine compartment overnight as compared to the min temp on land a couple hundred feet away from the lake. If anyone aver tries it, maybe let us know beforehand and we could have a pool. Person who guesses closest to the actual temperature difference wins.
