ecrooks

We are on vacation in Costa Rica, I will post at length about fishing later but for now I see New Bern has had below freezing temps at night. I did not get a chance to drain and winterize my inboard 8.1 crusader. What do you think, any damage?

ScottK

It's getting real cold dude! Supposed to be colder than normal this winter according to most. We are due for it you know....

If you have a trusted boating neighbor or friend who could come winterize it or at least drain the ports I would look at that real hard.

If they are knowledgeable enough about running on muffs or water port, have them run about 2-3 gallons of pink RV (Bio friendly) antifreeze through it after it has come up to operating temperature. My last inboard boat I made a bucket with a thru-hull attached to a GH that went to the muffs. Ran the regular water in the bucket until up to operating temp, then let it get low and added premix anti-freeze until I was happy it was in the system real well.

Hope you do not have any damage but you should be worried. Wunderground calling for lower 20's tonight. That is a hard freeze.

I have been winterizing my old I/O boat before in freezing temps and ice forming outside my special bucket and whereever the freshwater hit on the rear gunwale......BRRRR!!!!!

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