Cig CC from Salt to Fresh at LOTO
 

Have a Cig Center Console coming in LOTO in a few days that has spent its short life (2014) in Fla, Well maintained by Lip-Ship since new and want to be somewhat pro-active if possible with cleaning and preventive maintenance from the Salt/water/air if that is at all possible. For those that have been there and done that anything you can recommend would be welcome. From the NC and certainly aware you cannot reverse salt. Boat received its full baths after operation and was stored inside/full cover FWIW.

My guess is that since lipship was maintaining it you won't be able to tell the difference between that boat and one that lived its whole life in fresh water. When i bought my 2008 cig from lipship it was perfect and ran like a top even thou it was only used in the ocean

If Phil maintained it, it will be nice. However, salt does do its damage as well as the hot Fl sun. Whatever tell tale signs can be reversed, but being a 14, it shouldn't be too bad.

Come On Guys- you all know that once a boat goes Salt it is Junk- you just need to sell it to me at a great Loss and move on to a Real Boat :ernaehrung004:

i can see the sarcasm but seriously though that is the way every one feels now a days on the Fakebook groups specially,bunch of queers if you ask me,is like having a mud truck that you won't go in the mud with or a car you won't drive in the rain,is called an offshore boat for a reason.

Run it fresh water and give it a good wash - done. the trailer is gonna be the more likely issue if the boat was well maintained

Magnesium anodes for fresh water, zinc/aluminum for salt.

Phil maintained my '99 TG for it's first five years of life while it was down there in FL. It spent some time on the great lakes and now at LOTO. You would never be able to tell it spent any time at all in saltwater - I only know because of the records...

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This thread still lives!!! Pretty happy with it overall. Phil did a good job of maintaining the boat IMO, although the surveyor could have done a better job. I wish I would have hired another. Few things could have been better reported so I could have had Lip-Ship take care of them in FLA before it got up here at LOTO. I never got to put me eyes on it personally due to a broken leg/ankle right after I put the deposit on it. My time in it last summer was pretty limited, I guess i'm done with hockey..............

Great looking boat, love the colors.
I'd trade my lousy golf game for that boat any day!

RR

Love the paint on the boat!!! Very sharp.

That’s a great lookin boat!

Are there any long term updates on this process? I am currently going through the same thing with a much older boat that spent a longer time in salt water. While I feel it was well maintained, it definitely has an issue due to salt water. I added to another thread regarding Marine Machine steering and a replacement shaft for a cylinder so I won’t repeat that here. However, after reading about going from salt to fresh water the main thing I’m seeing is changing the anodes to magnesium from zinc or aluminum. Have you found any other obvious areas of concern that would keep the boat off the water? In other words, not cosmetic issues or minor things, but something similar to the steering. My boat is an inboard outboard so it probably has more items that have been exposed to salt. Thanks in advance for your help

At present there have not been any mech. issues anywhere (including steering). I got this boat with just over 400 hours and it now has about 520 on it. I have spent some time going over items that are readily observed with respect to steering/trim (etc) and frankly everything looks good. The boat spent its life at Lip-Ship since it's delivery in late 2014 until it came up here in June of 2019. Being on LOTO and with lots more traffic on the water over the past 2 summers the boat has not had any issues, although I will freely admit I don't know that the physical life of these component you speak of would effected with so few hours. . This place is an excellent test bed FWIW for such because it can be damn rough and if any salt/water/air issues from the result of prolonged salt water life were to be found I would think it would have happened..

ok. Thanks very much.

I keep boats on lifts at LOTO, and I keep a couple on lifts over the salt in Florida. The biggest thing that I see is the corrosion with wiring. In salt, everything needs to be tinned wire with shrink wrapped connections. I have seen that green corrosion make it a foot or more up a wire. I always spray down the back of the panel and the tops of batteries in order to at least slow it down.

on your boat, I am certain that the rigging is impeccable, so removing that factor means allot. Allot of the other stuff, like corrosion on the lower units, steering, cleats, etc would all be visible. Once cleaned well, and away from salt, the threat goes away.

awesome looking boat, you should be very proud of it!

Thanks for that info, what exactly are you spraying on the connections?????. FWIW if Myco gets my trailer done in time the boat will be at Suncoast Powersports in Bradenton this winter for a few months. Anything with respect to maintaining it in salt conditions only for a few months is welcome

It was suggested to me by my mechanic to use Fluid Film https://www.fluid-film.com/
I don't want to start an argument about what best, but this stuff seems to work out alright for us.

That thing is gorgeous!!!! :drool1:

Biggest item on a I/O with bravo's is the salt builds up around the water hose intake and squeeze it down. Update to the new style and no issues.

Ok. Thanks! I’ll look into it.