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wrote:
On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 12:10:30 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:47:57 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Ahh, 52F water temp. Delightful. Water temps are still in the low to mid
70's hereabouts.


Water was 27.8c in the river on the 9th when I did the state water
sample. (about 82f)
Salinity was 1.4 PPT. I thought my hydrometer was going to sink ;-)

Sounds better than 52 degrees. Hypothermia is not delightful. :-)

I live in an area where the ocean is always 48-55 degrees year round. Wet
suit for kayaking. Lakes are warm. Going to Clear Lake next week. Will
still be warm. Supposed to have first rain of the season Saturday.

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wrote:
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:57:58 -0500, Califbill
wrote:

wrote:
On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 12:10:30 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:47:57 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

Ahh, 52F water temp. Delightful. Water temps are still in the low to mid
70's hereabouts.


Water was 27.8c in the river on the 9th when I did the state water
sample. (about 82f)
Salinity was 1.4 PPT. I thought my hydrometer was going to sink ;-)

Sounds better than 52 degrees. Hypothermia is not delightful. :-)

I live in an area where the ocean is always 48-55 degrees year round. Wet
suit for kayaking. Lakes are warm. Going to Clear Lake next week. Will
still be warm. Supposed to have first rain of the season Saturday.


Yup been there

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/california/...nta%20Cruz.jpg


Still not as cold as Oregon tho.

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Oregon/Pac%...he%20Beach.jpg

Jacket and socks. That is arctic weather for me.

Colder than being in the snow

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Oregon/Mt%2...0Mt%20Hood.jpg

Warm water is closer to the Oregon coast than to our area. Albacore tuna
warm water is about 25-35 miles out around here, but only about 12 miles
out from the Northern Oregon coast. Different currents. Come to Santa
Cruz in December. Beautiful, sunny weather.

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says...

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:31:23 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 9/17/13 4:18 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:59:57 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

"a whole tank of gas"??
I wish I only used that much since is costs 1.33 per liter right now and the inboard tank holds 60 liters.
I realize you are trying to make a funny but you'd best stick with your day job.....oh wait..you don't have one.

I would drain that tank and use it in my car.

It is a lot easier to deal with a few CCs of condensation in the tank
than $60-70 worth of stale gas.
As dry as it is in the winter, you might not even have that.


Most small boats I have seen lately with built in fuel tanks don't have
drains. You'd have to pump or siphon it out somehow, and that's not a
fun thing to do with gallons of gasoline.

Why? It goes pretty fast if the tank is significantly higher than the
receiving can.
60 liters is less than 16 gallons.

Hell, we had a flood and our house was on a 150 year old rock wall root
cellar. The cellar filled up with water, which by the way after leaching
through the gravel/sand makeup of the soils, and going through the rock
walls, was pristine clear! Anyway, I ran two garden hoses up out of the
basement (probably about an 8 foot lift, and down to the creek and
siphoned the basement out! It took a week with two siphons plus the
lowering water table and water leaching back out.

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In article , says...

On 9/17/13 8:58 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:11:20 -0400, Hank©
wrote:

On 9/17/2013 7:58 AM, True North wrote:
Watch too early for winterizing.
I'll wait until late October or early November just in case a nice mild day blows up from down south.
We've just gone from a crappy damp windy two week period but expect this week to be sunny and mild.
Trouble is, the tide cycle is against me for launching and retrieving at most ramps.
Guess I'll go to a lake today or tomorrow.


What's to winterize Donnie? Put the leg down and throw a tarp over the
boat. You're done.

===

That's the nice thing about outboards.


Really? That's the kind of foolish advice that results in heavy duty
repair bills. It's too bad that "Hank" seems incapable of responding
reasonably to *any* kind of post, and seems unable to resist blowing
snot even on boating posts.

Winterizing an outboard that you plan to keep for a long time requires
more than keeping the lower unit down and tossing a tarp over the boat.

At the very minimum, you should:

Wash the engine's exterior to remove any salt, stains, whatever, and
retouch paint.

Run fuel stabilizer into the fuel tank and run the engine at idle for 10
or 15 minutes to push the stabilizer into the engine.

Spray fogging oil into the air intake if you can until the engine smokes
at idle.

Remove the spark plugs and spray fogging oil into the cylinders and then
if you can turn the start key with the dead man's switch removed.

Replace the engine oil, oil filter, and lower unit gear oil.

Grease the fittings, if any.

We had an 85 horse Johnson that lived its entire life outside and received maintenance
rarely. After 20 years it was still running.

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On 9/25/2013 6:38 PM, BAR wrote:
In article , says...



Really? That's the kind of foolish advice that results in heavy duty
repair bills. It's too bad that "Hank" seems incapable of responding
reasonably to *any* kind of post, and seems unable to resist blowing
snot even on boating posts.


As you blow snot all over a boat post....

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On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 10:37:48 AM UTC-4, iBoaterer wrote:
Anyway, I ran two garden hoses up out of the

basement (probably about an 8 foot lift, and down to the creek and

siphoned the basement out! It took a week with two siphons plus the

lowering water table and water leaching back out.

Well, you are good at sucking hoses......