What's your winter " to do" list for the V ?

[step up here]

A boat needs the same attention as a woman right down to the last penny!!!!

[bgreene]

Originally Posted by step up here

A boat needs the same attention as a woman right down to the last penny!!!!

I think a boat needs more attention than a woman.........A boat usually runs more consistenly than a woman anyway. Oops, did I say that ...

[spareparts]

you can walk away from a boat and it won't cost you a dime

[bradford]

Need to finish up a few small things, but those small things add up.

-Get my back to back lounge seat back from the upolstery man

-install hatch latches in my new hatch covers

-install nav lights, thinking about some shark eyes port and starboard

-see Spareparts pics of this Bertram 20 he's talking about with the new top his friend built and consider throwing more money down the hole

-think about installing I-command guages

-buy and install a garmin chartplotter/depth sounder and vhf radio

-install new teak trim in the cuddy

-put new trailer lights on to keep someone from crashing the etec

-think about how everyone who has trim tabs raves about how great they are and cringe when I think about drilling into my new virgin transom

-Take her out on the nice days!!

[Genie Aye]

Bradford--

Do the I command gauge and get the chip for the gauge-I feel best insurance for that E-tec-it allows several more options on the gauge--trim tabs, fuel gauge etc--it allowed me to take several gauges out and put my 5" chartplotter in my dash.

I am rewiring after replacing the old glass fuse holder behind the dash with ato fuse panel with 15 power sources--can shorten my wire runs for accessories, maybe a new dash panel if I get carried away and got to figure out why my running lights are blowing the fuse. All running lights are led, but think it might be the new tilt up light on the radar arch--to tight going thru the top hole in the arch--oh well, did 4hat one to myself.

Maybe even work on the side storage boxes.

[DiverDux]

Repair/replace throttle.
Secure seat at helm to floor.
Bolt the hinges to floor hatch with nylabolts or threadsealer.
Clean and oil teak trim.
Tach isn't reading accurately, determine cause and repair/replace.
Power wash and paint bottom.
Clean, polish & wax hull.

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by DiverDux

Repair/replace throttle.
Secure seat at helm to floor.
Bolt the hinges to floor hatch with nylabolts or threadsealer.
Clean and oil teak trim.
Tach isn't reading accurately, determine cause and repair/replace.
Power wash and paint bottom.
Clean, polish & wax hull.

Welcome to the site Diver. We love boat porn here so if you have some pics of your boat we'd love to see them. But in all cases, welcome aboard.

[DiverDux]

Originally Posted by DiverDux

Repair/replace throttle.
Secure seat at helm to floor.
Bolt the hinges to floor hatch with nylabolts or threadsealer.
Clean and oil teak trim.
Tach isn't reading accurately, determine cause and repair/replace.
Power wash and paint bottom.
Clean, polish & wax hull.

Hello all-

Well the boat is wet as of yesterday. The list is mostly complete a few additions and a few things we decided to postpone for a bit.

New nuts and bolts to the floor hatch.

Cleaned and coated teak.

Cleaned and waxed.

Replaced the tach.

Had a problem shifting into and out of gear, so we replaced the linkage to the outdrive. Needed to pull the outdrive to do the repair so we replaced the boot, gimbal bearing etc.

Decided to look at the stiff stearing. replaced the helm with a new anti-feedback steering system.

Replaced the factory ignition with a solid state ignition.

Attempted to secure helm seat base... aborted for now. See our plea for advice in the repair section.

Decided not to re-paint the bottom. Considering a permanent coating for the bottom. Thinking next year.

[Hedge]

Originally Posted by spareparts

you can walk away from a boat and it won't cost you a dime

Love this one.

My winter to do list is find Skools and kidnap him for a day to get my motor tuned.

[cfelton]

I just replaced my shifter and new cables. My wife got me a 728 Himminbird last christmas, just got the GPS antenna to go with it, need to mount that. Planning on taking it out tomorrow morning to try again ta catch a striper or maybe a catfish.