Sad Time of Year

Ian

Last I saw her she was hanging in the travel-lift being bottom cleaned.

Handymans342

LOL

Cableguy Greg

reneechris14 said:

Cableguy Greg said:

All I need to do is put my winter cover on. Put 78 hours on her this season. Made it to the Rinkervous this summer. Overall it was a great season. Sad to see it come to an end. 

78 hours is great year

I thought so. Unfortunately me September got wiped out due to my brother-in-law passing away after a motorcycle accident. I had to help my sister out, which took away some boating time. There is always next season. Family comes first.

Lake_Bum

Dropped off my 232 to get winterized today.  It'll be a LONG wait til April!!!!!  It will spend at least the first couple snowstorms in the open, but with the cover on.  My 5th wheel got damaged, and has part of the fiberglass torn off the side, so until I get that fixed....the boat is exposed.  That gives me anxiety haha. 

Dream_Inn

I'm watching weather here and my plan was to winterize and cover the last weekend in October.  But, it looks like weather may be iffy, so I'm thinking I may do it this weekend.  I like to wax it before winter, so I'll do that tomorrow first.  Unload everything tomorrow evening, then winterize and cover on Saturday before the rain on Sunday.  Getting my chimney cleaned tomorrow morning, so maybe a nice fire on Saturday night with some college football with a couple good drinks to ease my achiness!

Stodge

Lake_Bum said:

Dropped off my 232 to get winterized today.  It'll be a LONG wait til April!!!!!  It will spend at least the first couple snowstorms in the open, but with the cover on.  My 5th wheel got damaged, and has part of the fiberglass torn off the side, so until I get that fixed....the boat is exposed.  That gives me anxiety haha. 

How much "winter" do you get in Arizona??

Dream_Inn

Stodge, Flagstaff is higher elevation and definitely gets the snow.

PickleRick

Its not too sad.  My gamecocks just took down #3 Georgia between the hedges. The pens have 4 wins in a row despite being down 4 or 5 top 6 forwads.  The Steelers have some how eeked out a win.  

Sadly it got down to 45 last night so winter is creeping its ugly head in here.  Time to do some winterizing and start some upgrades/mod projects

boatman37

Took ours to the underground mine today so in hibernation until mid March

Lake_Bum

Stodge said:

Lake_Bum said:

Dropped off my 232 to get winterized today.  It'll be a LONG wait til April!!!!!  It will spend at least the first couple snowstorms in the open, but with the cover on.  My 5th wheel got damaged, and has part of the fiberglass torn off the side, so until I get that fixed....the boat is exposed.  That gives me anxiety haha. 

How much "winter" do you get in Arizona??

Quite a bit actually!  I live at 7100 ft elevation.  The mountains of Northern AZ are no joke.  12,700 at the peak.  Ya go 2 hours south, and it's 110 all summer in Phoenix. Flagstaff gets all 4 seasons, and is 85 most of the summer. I love it.   

Lake_Bum

shawnmjr said:

Lake_Bum said:

Stodge said:

Lake_Bum said:

Dropped off my 232 to get winterized today.  It'll be a LONG wait til April!!!!!  It will spend at least the first couple snowstorms in the open, but with the cover on.  My 5th wheel got damaged, and has part of the fiberglass torn off the side, so until I get that fixed....the boat is exposed.  That gives me anxiety haha. 

How much "winter" do you get in Arizona??

Quite a bit actually!  I live at 7100 ft elevation.  The mountains of Northern AZ are no joke.  12,700 at the peak.  Ya go 2 hours south, and it's 110 all summer in Phoenix. Flagstaff gets all 4 seasons, and is 85 most of the summer. I love it.   

@Lake_Bum So you can just park your boat at the bottom of the mountain and save on winterizattion

I wish.  In my city (Flagstaff) it gets down to 10 degrees on a fairly regular basis during the winters.  Anyone who forgets to winterize here, better PRAY that their brass freeze plugs work haha.  I bought a cheap Sea Ray years ago, for practically nothing.  The blocks freeze plugs had been pushed out by ice, but the engine was intact!  Bought it for $800 bucks.  Used it for a year, fixed up the interior, and sold for $3500.  

LaRea

We just bought tickets to see Joe Bonamassa at MGM National Harbor in November.  Obviously, we have to go by boat.  So I have at least four more weekends available for boating.  

Handymans342

He can get a Rinker now

reneechris14

Thats terrible mans worst nightmare.

randy56

sad

GMSLITHO

bummer but at least no one was hurt 

LaRea

  Wow.  Hate to see that.  Did the aluminum hull manage to contain the fire from spreading to the docks?

rasbury

Uh...why would anyone run an extension chord like that and try to run 50 amps? I run a chord to my 30 amp amp...doing the battery charger and that's about it...am I ok? Just sitting on the trailer out front...

rasbury

@Alswagg that's the same thing I do...I have a heavy chord with the boat on the street and an adapter into the shore power..obviously not running the air..just charging and maybe the radio....am I ok with that?

aero3113

I have an adapter and an extension cord going to my 330 in my yard for the charger and some lights at times. Hopefully no issues with that?

Willhound

You can run from a 15 amp household receptacle to an adapted shore power cord no problem. The cord is rated either 30 or 50 amps. It's when you go the other way, over amping the cord that you're asking for trouble.

boatman37

I'm no electrician but my take is as long as the breaker is the weak point. You don't want to undersize your cords with a heavier breaker as you will overheat the cord and risk fire. You want the breaker to be the weak point

zaverin1

This thing smoked few heII cats 

raybo3

Don't forget the longer the cord the bigger gauge it should be. 30 amp should be a #10 wire. 

J3ff

So I'm going to be plugged into a regular house plug 100% of the time down here in FL. Also have two options.  Can run a regular heavy duty extension cord to the boat, and the adapter at the end of it, or, can put the adapter plugged directly into the house and have the yellow shore power cord run the entire length. Assume I should run the longer shore power cord... right? 

Willhound

Doesn't really matter. Only 15 amps either way. I suppose maybe the heavier shore power cord is a little more efficient and will have less voltage drop.

raybo3

@J3ff how long of a run are you talking about? What are you powering up on the boat? If its just the charger and a light you should be ok. If your powering up heaters you could run into problems.............. Just say'n

rasbury

heaters, in key west?

raybo3

rasbury said:

heaters, in key west?

Opps did not see the FLA part. My bad. If its a very small load he should be fine. Heavy load could cause problems. That was my point........

diggin2day1

Just took my last ride over to Davis Park, Fire Island to say hello/goodbye to my favorite dock master(Wayne)... I took his picture and he took mine. Waiting at the ramp to get hauled back to my house and put on blocks for a winter nap.