On 11/2/10 6:17 PM, Gene wrote:
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:56:56 -0400, John
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:17:14 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Oct 30, 8:51 am, wrote:
On Oct 29, 8:05 pm, Secular wrote:





On 10/29/10 7:42 PM, I am Tosk wrote:

In ,
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I know the season is ending.

What do you do with your boat(s) over the winter if you are not in the
southern climes?

I store my old classic in a shed. My newer boat spends the winter on the
hard in a nearby boatyard, in a cradle the previous owner had built for
her. The cradle has an A-frame that can be erected to support a couple
of tarps.

The old boat has a simple inboard marine engine that's easy enough to
service. The newer boat has a pair of diesels that i have an outside
contractor service. I take the batteries home.

How do you store the batteries in the winter, do you manage them during
the time off?

I clean the batteries when I get them home, put a bit of grease on the
lugs, charge them up slowly, and then charge them up once a month to
keep them fully charged.

Hopefully NOT sitting on concrete. I put plywood under mine.- Hide quoted text -

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The batteries and concrete thing is an urban legend.

Agreed. But I do it anyway. Wood is warmer than concrete, and a warm battery is
a happy battery....or is that another legend?

Two things:

1) A warm battery is a more chemically active battery, thus more
cranking power, and

2) a fully charged battery won't freeze where we live(-77 deg F), but
a discharged battery will (20 deg F).






I've resigned myself to charging up the batteries in the boat because
they are too damned big to move easily, and to open the cover once a
month to charge them up.