I am not planning to use my boat for the next six months, what procedures should I go thru to insure proper storage.
The basics is a 1996 Johnson 130 hp main motor with pre-mix gas and oil, a 79 gallon fuel tank. a 15 hp Suzuki two stroke kicker with a 6 gallon fuel tank. Three batterys, two are auto and one marine. An older rusting e-z loader tandum wheel trailer. The fuel here in Hawaii is mixed with 10% ethanol. I have never done this in 30 years of boating. Normally I take it out every three or four weeks when I am not usinf it for fishing, but since the State and Feds have taken control of the fishery that I fish in we have closed season this year for the next six months and also gas on Maui is currently $4.25 per gallon and that for regular.
Please be complete in your procedures. Pleas do not refer me to a web site. This topic is to allow you cold weather guys to strut your stuff because you have to do the each year. Oh by the way the boat is on Maui and is normally storaged under a boat cover on the side of the house with a 6' fence so we are protected from the hot tropical sun, dust and bird poop and rain. The same sunshine that gives you that wonderful Hawaiian Tan during the winter months. This is the same sunshine that has destroyed a boat cover guaranteed for 5 years in a year and a half. I filed my claim with the manufacturer and they gave me a new one.
Hopefully this will keep some of you busy while you wait for the ice to deforst off your favorite fishing hole
The basics is a 1996 Johnson 130 hp main motor with pre-mix gas and oil, a 79 gallon fuel tank. a 15 hp Suzuki two stroke kicker with a 6 gallon fuel tank. Three batterys, two are auto and one marine. An older rusting e-z loader tandum wheel trailer. The fuel here in Hawaii is mixed with 10% ethanol. I have never done this in 30 years of boating. Normally I take it out every three or four weeks when I am not usinf it for fishing, but since the State and Feds have taken control of the fishery that I fish in we have closed season this year for the next six months and also gas on Maui is currently $4.25 per gallon and that for regular.
Please be complete in your procedures. Pleas do not refer me to a web site. This topic is to allow you cold weather guys to strut your stuff because you have to do the each year. Oh by the way the boat is on Maui and is normally storaged under a boat cover on the side of the house with a 6' fence so we are protected from the hot tropical sun, dust and bird poop and rain. The same sunshine that gives you that wonderful Hawaiian Tan during the winter months. This is the same sunshine that has destroyed a boat cover guaranteed for 5 years in a year and a half. I filed my claim with the manufacturer and they gave me a new one.
Hopefully this will keep some of you busy while you wait for the ice to deforst off your favorite fishing hole