[Rhodes22-list] winterizing- help please

[Michael Meltzer]

motor:
1)flush with fresh water, (trashcan or the ear muffer), extra cridet for 
using saltaway.
2)at the same time, use the spray "carbon out" cleaners
3)finish the carbon cleaning,
4)change the oil(make sure the motor warm), clean the oil filter
5)change the lower gear lube
6)burn the gas out and use foging oil at the end
7)change the spake plugs and spray some foging oil in the hole
8)general clean up and spray down everything with boeing sheaild 9
9)good time to check the themrastat

 Boat:
Get all water out of the bilge, winter frezing can be trouble
take the battrys inside or put the on a 3 amp charger, make sure 
everything is shut down and off the battrys
Get all water out of the bilge, winter frezing can be trouble
Cover the boat, it not sitting on it lines and water will get in.
Get all water out of the bilge, winter frezing can be trouble
take all food cushsions and flairs off the boat
Get all water out of the bilge, winter frezing can be trouble
General cleanup
Get all water out of the bilge, winter frezing can be trouble
make sure the cover can standup to the winter/winds, is tied down right






P&M Beals wrote:

>Dear Rhodies,
>
>I checked out winterizing at the rhodes22.org site, which is our only
>reference site besides GB's site, correct?
>
>and I reviewed all the saved messages from a couple weeks back.
>
>Here are my questions:  Remember I am not a motor acquainted sailor  until
>two months ago...
>
>We have a Yamaha 9.9 electric start motor ( since we don't need to mix oil
>with the gas I believe it is a 4 stroke).  What if anything do we do for
>that type for winterizing?
>
>Is it necessary to top off gas tanks to prevent condensation?
>
>We will remove the batteries.
>
>Do folks remove the spreaders from the mast when putting their boat down for
>the winter?
>When I first stepped the mast with Joe Ware in August the spreaders were not
>on the mast, but when we prepped it for travel north Joe said leaving the
>spreaders in place would be ok.
>Will there be a problem of them bending or too much stress etc if left in
>place? I do recall we had one  heck of a time getting them in place.
>
>we will be covering the boat with a cover, quite securely but it will
>definitely be an outside storage.  also besides washing down the hull can we
>wait til late winter to bottom paint again or is that necessary now?
>
>Any extra drainage steps to take....we didn't use the water holding tank at
>all.
>
>Looks like this Sat. we have to pull  her out.  Would like to have had more
>sails but that's about it for up here.  When I was a kid to teen, and sailed
>on the Hudson up north we had a family tradition of sailing on Thanksgiving,
>with a small pot belly coal burning stove in the cabin...with a smoke stack
>vent of course. We had to chip away a thin ice sheet some times from around
>the bow. good memories though.
>
>Thanks 
>Phyllis
>Whisper
>NJ   
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