I am moving my boat from sal****er to the Great Lakes. Is there anything in
particular I have to do differently? Also, if I plan on keeping it in a
slip, should I paint the bottom?

Thanks

On Jul 4, 9:01 pm, "remark" wrote:
I am moving my boat from sal****er to the Great Lakes. Is there anything in
particular I have to do differently? Also, if I plan on keeping it in a
slip, should I paint the bottom?

Thanks

I dont know about the water system, should have no problem (talk to
your boat dude)
We Zinc coat the bottom to keep the algae down, and scrub each year.
Muriatic Acid in the Fall....o the joy....

Mr Windburn

Be sure to flush it with salt water when you take it out of the lake.

LOL!!!

--Mike

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On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:01:54 -0400, "remark"
wrote:

I am moving my boat from sal****er to the Great Lakes. Is there anything
in
particular I have to do differently? Also, if I plan on keeping it in a
slip, should I paint the bottom?

Thanks




Be sure to flush it with salt water when you take it out of the lake.

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:04:10 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 21:01:54 -0400, "remark"
wrote:

I am moving my boat from sal****er to the Great Lakes. Is there anything in
particular I have to do differently? Also, if I plan on keeping it in a
slip, should I paint the bottom?

Thanks

Be sure to flush it with salt water when you take it out of the lake.

ROTFL!!!

"remark" wrote in message
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I am moving my boat from sal****er to the Great Lakes. Is there anything
in
particular I have to do differently? Also, if I plan on keeping it in a
slip, should I paint the bottom?

Thanks


You didn't mention which lake. If the others are anything like Lake Ontario,
don't assume that 3 foot waves behave anything like the same size waves on
the ocean. They don't. Lots of people return from the lake on otherwise
nice, sunny days looking like they've been through the perfect storm.

Start small until you know the lake well, unless you want to be the subject
of a song like "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".

I,ve been out in 4 foot chop on Erie......that was just FUN.

You weren't painting the bottom before! I've found that changing salinity is
good but that anything in any water need to be protected.

Sometime changing salinity is good - I spent 20 months in the Delaware and
went to NYC via the Atlantic and seems that all the bio-stuff didn't like
the change. Ultimately, if you stay anywhere you need protection - gotta
fight that evolution stuff!

Dave

"remark" wrote in message
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I am moving my boat from sal****er to the Great Lakes. Is there anything
in
particular I have to do differently? Also, if I plan on keeping it in a
slip, should I paint the bottom?

Thanks

Yes, I was painting before. I was just wondering about taking a boat that
spent its life in sal****er and what effects, if any would happen, running
it in Lake Erie. Its my first boat. Its not really big, I mostly kept it
in the bay, fishing for stripers. I have heard a lot about the choppier
waves in the Great Lakes.

Thanks for all of the advice.



"Dave Isherwood" wrote in message
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You weren't painting the bottom before! I've found that changing salinity
is good but that anything in any water need to be protected.

Sometime changing salinity is good - I spent 20 months in the Delaware and
went to NYC via the Atlantic and seems that all the bio-stuff didn't like
the change. Ultimately, if you stay anywhere you need protection - gotta
fight that evolution stuff!

Dave

"remark" wrote in message
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I am moving my boat from sal****er to the Great Lakes. Is there anything
in
particular I have to do differently? Also, if I plan on keeping it in a
slip, should I paint the bottom?

Thanks

I have heard a lot about the choppier waves in the Great Lakes.

Lake Erie is THE most unpredictable of the great lakes. It is so
shallow, that a storm can blow up behind you, and overtake you BEFORE
you can out-run it!! Keep that radio ON.

Mr. Windburn

Can't you see these storms building?

I've been out on Commercial Fishing Tugs, as well as the ole' tub I
got in the laneway, and the lake is very decieving. That was the
reason for the statement. So many folkls go out with NO radio, and
have a rough-as-hell ride on the way in.

Mr Windburn