First Cold Night of the Season

[NautiqueJeff]

First below-freezing night of the year around here. Normally I wouldn't worry about one night of 27 degrees, but a friend of mine was worried about her boat, and her boat just happens to be one of my favorite restoration projects I ever did, so I couldn't refuse her. Plus her boat has a heater, which is always the first thing to crack in freezing weather.

Drained everything, blew out heater lines, and even ran six gallons of marine anti-freeze through it, which I don't usually do. I am usually a drain it and forget it winterizer. But I like to go the extra step for this particular boat. I even took the battery home to store it on a maintainer over the winter. Now her boat is all set for the winter.



Once I got home, I figured I had better set up my Xtreme Heaters in the Sea Nautique and in the 2002 Ski Nautique, especially since that one has a heater too. Now everything at my dock is safe as well. The 2003 Ski Nautique is inside, so no worries about that one.

[NautiqueJeff]

Anyone else winterizing this week?

[BasaltRMK]

NautiqueJeff about 6 weeks ago for us, winter comes early up in the mountains. Not that I'm complaining, I've been in Kaua'i for the past 4 weeks riding bigger waves on a much longer board Coming home to single digits next week...

[Nautiquehunter]

All of my boats are inside stored . The barn never freezes even though it doesn't have heat.

[morfoot]

Gonna be in the upper 20's for lows here on the south end of Lanier. With two boats on lifts and one on the trailer under cover it looks like I'm draining blocks this afternoon. I've got heaters for 2 of them and just low temps at night shouldn't cold soak the block to freeze and crack it but it only takes a few minutes to drain everything. The 99 SN has petcocks on everything, and it'll be used for that freak 70'F December ski day. Kermit and the 88' SN will be put away till March.

[bturner]

I did all the boats I work on a good month ago. You never know in Michigan and 2 of them are a good 2.5 hours away.

[SANonTellico]

Both boats fully drained and covered, Xtreme heaters in place along with Govee wifi thermometers. Both jetski’s also winterized.

The countdown to spring has begun!

[Scooter G]

Way to play BasaltRMK, time to bust out the sleds.
Nice boat barn Nautiquehunter, very creative use of the lift, I like it.
Great service project NautiqueJeff, way to lend a hand.
I stash my rig in a heated (when needed) shop, I will probably pull the plugs this weekend for that one or 2 times I need to pull it out this Winter for extra room. This will be my first experience with this boat, but thanks to all your great write ups on Planet Nautique, I think I could do it in my sleep.

[Interjon]

I've got to do mine Thursday. I have a 2019 200 with a ZR4, direct drive. First time winterizing this one, myself. The 2019 manual (on this site) does not appear to show the 12 or 13 BLUE drain plugs, as they are on this engine. Anyone have any experience with this? Am I okay to simply unscrew the dozen or so plugs, or do I need to actually take off a hose (such as at the pump).

It looks like the next year, 2020, Nautique went with the three hoses with a disconnect.

Thanks in advance.

[NautiqueJeff]

Interjon see page 10 of this manual:

https://www.planetnautique.com/Corre...18/18477ti.pdf

[hal2814]

I wouldn’t call it winterizing but I’ve hit that time of year when I drain after each use just in case. I’ve got the 3 hose drains now so it’s super easy to do that and the strainer cup each time. I also have a belt squeal less than a season after replacing a belt so I’m probably going to do the belt, tensioner, and impeller in the near future instead of waiting until spring like I usually do for the impeller.

[NautiqueJeff]

Both boats fully drained and covered, Xtreme heaters in place along with Govee wifi thermometers.

I am fighting with my Govee as I type this, but I will have that up and running today for sure.

EDIT: All up and running now. Just put it in the boat, so the temp is reading a bit high right now, but it'll be accurate soon.

[MN Ryan]

As I look out the window, it is snowing, and our daily highs towards the end of the week are sub-20 F. Needless to say, mine has been winterized for 5 weeks now.

We do have a local teen that is on her way to professional riding--I've seen her out recently. I saw them pulling their Malibu from the lake last Tuesday. Brrr.

[BasaltRMK]

Way to play BasaltRMK, time to bust out the sleds.
Nice boat barn Nautiquehunter, very creative use of the lift, I like it.
Great service project NautiqueJeff, way to lend a hand.
I stash my rig in a heated (when needed) shop, I will probably pull the plugs this weekend for that one or 2 times I need to pull it out this Winter for extra room. This will be my first experience with this boat, but thanks to all your great write ups on Planet Nautique, I think I could do it in my sleep.

You know it, got to earn the 'RMK' in that profile name!

- bob

[jtryon]

All of my boats are inside stored . The barn never freezes even though it doesn't have heat.

nice older supra's!