don't forget your water tank and hot water heater. I'm sure the list can help,
I do not know about those as we keep the boat in the water all year.
Leslie
Phoenix C&C32
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On Tue, 11/4/14, Burt Stratton via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: Stus-List Winterizing my boat and Sea cocks
To: "'Bernard Toews'" <bernieto...@gmail.com>, cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 7:00 AM
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#yiv2443125185 Beyent, Congratulations on your purchase!
I am in a similar position although I have relatively
extensive power boat ownership experience. When it comes to
winterizing they are very similar. The standing rigging
being the major difference. I see many owners here keep
their rigs up over the winter. Up there, I might talk to
some local folks about that. I don’t know what those kinds
of temperatures would do to your rig. I am taking mine down
this year because I am having the boat transported to my
home but it stayed up last year. I would welcome other opinions but
IMHO I would not bother draining anything engine related as
long as you run the correct anti-freeze through the cooling
system as you described. I will admit that we don’t have
experience with that kind of cold down here in Massachusetts
but we will see below zero Fahrenheit. If you get the
anti-freeze distributed through your systems it should
protect all of it including the silencer. All the draining
and disassembly sounds redundant. You of course need to add
the correct type and concentration of anti-freeze to any
system that has water in it. (head, fresh water, heat pump,
etc.) Also, the sea strainer on the intake of your raw water
cooling system may need to be drained or I just pour
anti-freeze into it if there is any standing water left in
there. Mine empties out pretty well when on the hard with
the seacock open. Also, if you don’t have a garboard drain
in the hull you may want to put some anti-freeze in the
bilge to account for any standing water there. Make sure you
treat your gas. I like to make sure my tank is full in order
to minimize condensation but there are others who like to
keep the tank as empty as they can to avoid having all that
fuel age over the winter. I use Startron and have never had
a problem even with gas that has sat for a couple years. I
use a higher concentration than suggested on the
container. Burt From: CnC-List
[mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of
Bernard Toews via CnC-List
Sent:
Tuesday, November 04, 2014 9:30 AM
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Subject: Stus-List Winterizing my boat
and Sea cocks
I'm new to cnc.
I should mention that I have never owned anything bigger
than a two man dinghy until I bought a 1979 34 C&C (
Hull No. 175) so I'm in the unfortunate position of
knowing very little about my boat and so I have lots of
questions and only a few answers. Websites, books and forums
are very important to me. I would classify myself as an
inexperienced boat owner although I am some experience
sailing a keel boat.
I am
trying to learn to maintain the boat myself and I'm
finding that the learning curve is very steep. I am trying
to get to know my boat and make sure I do things right.
I am winterizing the
boat myself for the first time. I live in an area with a
harsh winter climate (Winnipeg, Manitoba) where the
temperature can drop to 40 below Celcius in the winter (not
counting wind chill factors). The boat has a raw water
cooled 30 hp Atomic 4 engine. I want to make sure that I am
doing everything correctly when winterizing my boat. I have
pumped RV 50 below anti-freeze into the engine until the
anti-freeze ran out of the exhaust. I didn’t warm up the
engine at the time since the boat was on the hard and I had
no water source. So, in order to be safe, I will be taking
out the thermostat and running anti-freeze through the
engine again. I will then open and leave open the three
drain plugs or cocks ( cylinder block drain cock located on
the port side, drain plug located on the port side near the
water pump, and the manifold drain plug). I have been told
to drain the muffler in full for the winter but I don’t
know what that means or how to drain the muffler or even
where it is located. Also, I have been told to loosen the
water pump cover and drain it. I’m not sure how to do
this. I would welcome responses and comments about these
matters and also if there is anything else I should be doing
to winterize the engine or other parts of the boat.
I welcome any suggestions
about sea cocks as to where they are located and which sea
cocks should be open over the winter and which should be
closed during the winter. I apologize for this
lengthy message and will try to be brief in the future.
Beyent
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