How do you use/store your boat?

aguyindallas · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:15 pm

All of us are from different places, which means different climates, different storage situations for season and off season etc.

I want to see real, comparable information on how your boat spends its summer and winter months.

Xavid · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:49 pm

Summer it is trailered from home to various lakes and rivers and back. My upper part of the driveway is pretty well out of sight from the neighbors and street so I don't get any frowns from them.
Winter in indoor, not heated, storage facility. Just put it up tonight. :cry:

robbo3 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:32 pm

My boat consumes my garage all summer for easy access and gets used 2-3 times per week and about 2 full weeks over the summer when it is kept in the water.

During the winter, I'm renting a storage unit (unheated) so I can park inside and avoid scraping windows and brushing a foot of snow in the mornings.

Kelleyo · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:41 pm

I am selling my cabin and buying a lake lot and building a new house. Then I will be able to put my boat in for the entire summer. I will have dock with a boat lift to keep it out of the water.

jnizi · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:57 am

I wish I could select the bottom choice :cry:

At least we are one of the last ones out of the water so we will be first in come April.

Walt · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 12:09 pm

Since I store the boat in the driveway year round (except when in use, of course), it gets sad this time of year seeing it just sitting there. But never will it be as bad as the first year, when I bought the boat in November, and promptly parked and covered it until April! Yikes, what horrible memories.

erie cruiser · **Joined:** Mon Jun 06, 2011 6:40 am **Posts:** 68

We store our 268 in a limestone mine about 1000' underground, no winterization needed, pull in unhook in fall, pull out and put into great lake Erie in the spring.

ric · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:18 pm

My H180 stays in a wet slip 24/7/365 unless i take it out to clean the hull back white

Flyer51 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:08 pm

jnizi wrote:

I wish I could select the bottom choice :cry:

At least we are one of the last ones out of the water so we will be first in come April.

Me too...I just finished winterizing yesterday. Couldn't wash the boat because we are under water restrictions here so it will probably sit all winter with some dust and a light scum ring. Come on spring it's going to be a long winter.

St. Louis Dave · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:40 pm

Mine lives in an inside rack year round. Heated in the winter.

askieffer · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:51 pm

In the summer, it stays in a covered dry dock and put in just before I get to the lake. In the winter, I have been moving it to a heated dry dock. Winterized it this week, hated to do it as we could have squeezed about three or four more weeks in but they had two different dealers come to winterize several at a time and it made sense.

Winter Sux · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:55 pm

Mine goes in as soon as the ice is out and stays in for the season. I wont venture out in the lake for a few weeks though after launch cuz my lake has a huge ice fishing population. Not all, but a lot leave garbage on the ice including ice huts. I wait a few weeks for all that garbage to wash ashore. This winter she'll be on her trailer at a nice indoor storage place I found,,,cold but dry. Last Sunday we woke up to frost on the hatches, soooo, I think this will be our last weekend floating. Then it's all over but the crying :cry:

Then it's over to my winter hobby,,,,DRINKIN,,,,no wait, I do that all year :lol:

John

yrless11 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:59 pm

Mine is in covered outdoor rack storage year round. Just got my winterization bill last week

powellcrazy · **Posted:** Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:31 pm

The boat is on the side of the house or in the back yard, year round. I just shrunk wrapped it 2 weeks ago, but can easily be removed should weather be unseasonable nice over the winter for a Powell trip.

Have done the heated indoor storage, but that was an hour drive from the house and tucked in for the season, no getting boat until they call and say that storage is open and want all RV's / boats out at the same time. Didn't care for that part.

ardy · **Posted:** Thu Oct 27, 2011 3:07 am

Summer it is used as much as possible-from storage (50 metres from the water) to boat ramp 500 metres away.
Winter not as much but just for a cruise to keep the fuel moving though it, and of course it is fun to do

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