Question from a newbie.
 

Hi all,

I have a question that I would like answered once and for all. If you store your boat in a temp. controlled garage, do you still need to winterize it? I had this discussion with a few people at work today. I told them "no". I may be wrong, but if you go out during the winter say once a week and turn the engines over for 20-30 minutes you shouldn't have a problem...right? Ok, thats it. Now to see if I guessed right...LOL. Thanks again. :party-smiley-004:

i dont see why you would have to. nothing would be freezing. you would probably want to throw some fuel stabilizer in though.

Perlmudder,

That's what I had thought. Didn't think about the gas treatment though...good catch!

Thanks:evilb:

Mine sits in my garage all winter. The gargage is kept at 45*. It is not winterized and has not been started or turned over since last October. It does have stabil in the fuel. I have done it this way for several years. I do drain out the majority of water.

You still have to stabilize the fuel and you should still fog the engines.

If you want to play Russian Roulette with your power company keeping the heat on so you can save 45 minutes flushing the cooling system with antifreeze, that's up to you.

Once again I have to agree with Chris. Drain the water and fill it with RV anti-freeze.

I would still like to have the anticorrosive and lubricating qualities inside the engine.

There is nothing to prevent corrosion in RV antifreeze. Lubricating what????

The Sea-Fit -100 Marine/RV non toxic antifreeze has corrosion inhibitors in it. I buy it at west marine. As far as lubricating goes antifreeze is slicker
than water so after the boat is sitting all winter I feel when you first start it up in the spring it's easier on your sea-water impeller.

Based on that we should turn off the water and drain the pipes in our house everytime we leave in case the heat goes out.

$20 antifreeze VS $20,000 engines. *Note*, plumbers not automotive (ethaline glycol) cause I'm enviromently frendly. Even though I can rip through a $450 an hr in gas. My boat is called "Global Warming". Go figure!:cool-smiley-011: