Awakened the beast-gctid349996

[FISHIN00]

Pulled the boat from the back garage today, gave it a bath, put 4 gallons of non ethonal 90 oct in the tank, got out my portable lake and let the engine run for 1.5 hrs at different speeds......Should splash sometime in the next two weeks..

[tonyiiiafl]

VERY jealous! We are actually looking at leaving Cape Cod and moving down there in the VERY near future! Good luck with the early (to us) splash!

[itsabowtime2]

You are a lucky man Dave.

Any DHL plans this year?

[FISHIN00]

itsabowtime2 wrote:
You are a lucky man Dave.

Any DHL plans this year?

All of us are lucky to have wives that let have our toys, my wife had the back garage built to park to boat inside when we are'nt using it. DHL this year will be off and on this year during the weekends with my brother,Averitt will route me through there. We are doing the Alaskan cruise this year in August for our 40th. I will mainly be doing the WinterHaven chain of lakes, Harris chain of lakes. Hope to get over to Captharv's neck of the woods on the St Johns river and maybe down to Lake Okeechobee at Buckhead Ridge and see how far up the Kissimssee River I can go.

[FISHIN00]

tonyiiiafl wrote:
VERY jealous! We are actually looking at leaving Cape Cod and moving down there in the VERY near future! Good luck with the early (to us) splash!

I usually boat until June, then it get just too darn hot, then start up in the fall. This year a thing called work got in the way, normally by this time of year, I've had a few rounds of golf in, not yet the case.

[Guest]

Do you fresh water or salt water boat? I have a 2001 Capri Classic 1950 bow rider, looking to move to Sarasota area and salt walter boat.

[FISHIN00]

sikirica98 wrote:
Do you fresh water or salt water boat? I have a 2001 Capri Classic 1950 bow rider, looking to move to Sarasota area and salt walter boat.

Freshwater only...I've been tempted to pull it over to Tampa Bay and launch....I'm just not into Saltwater. From what I understand, the Sarasota area is pretty good boating for us "ITTY BITTY" boaters.

[Guest]

Is 90 octane required? Otherwise you are wasting money and lowering performance.

[Guest]

FISHIN00 wrote:
All of us are lucky to have wives that let have our toys, my wife had the back garage built to park to boat inside when we are'nt using it. DHL this year will be off and on this year during the weekends with my brother,Averitt will route me through there. We are doing the Alaskan cruise this year in August for our 40th. I will mainly be doing the WinterHaven chain of lakes, Harris chain of lakes. Hope to get over to Captharv's neck of the woods on the St Johns river and maybe down to Lake Okeechobee at Buckhead Ridge and see how far up the Kissimssee River I can go.

A mighty fine looking beast she is too Dave. I bet you're itching to splash.

I wish my wife would build me a garage for the boat!. Instead she keeps filling ours with junk and laundry

[Guest]

How hot was that bucket of water after 1.5 hours?

[FISHIN00]

oldjeep wrote:
How hot was that bucket of water after 1.5 hours?

Not hot at all, you notice that I had a water hose going into the tub, which replaces any water displaced and keeps putting fresh water into the tub. This method is better than using muffs and a lot quieter.

[Guest]

Around my area, all ethanol free gas is 90 octane, you don't have a choice.

I wondered about using a barrel like that to do my engine break-in. I do my "usual" boating on the Intracoastal and the no wake zones are so prevalent, it will be difficult to achieve the break-in without waiting for a calm ocean day....

vtx531 wrote:
Is 90 octane required? Otherwise you are wasting money and lowering performance.

[Chief_Alen]

Breakin must be performed under load.

[FISHIN00]

JeffBowser wrote:
Around my area, all ethanol free gas is 90 octane, you don't have a choice.

I wondered about using a barrel like that to do my engine break-in. I do my "usual" boating on the Intracoastal and the no wake zones are so prevalent, it will be difficult to achieve the break-in without waiting for a calm ocean day....

I prefer to use ethonal free gas when I can find it,my motor runs better on it,of course it is more expensive. Running the motor in a barrel goes waaaay back to when I was a kid. Living in Wi, our motors and boats usually sat outside during the winter, so my dad ran them for hrs at the beginning of the season to make sure the motor was ready before hitting the water.(water pumps,fuel lines,shaft seals,electrical issues) Over the years my brother and I just followed the same practice. The nice thing about plastic drums is you can cut them to fit your motor. If you keep a ample amount of water coming in you can engage your prop at idle foward/reverse to make sure your shifters work and check your shaft seals. Also runing in a drum elininates the chance of you hurting your self on a unprotected prop.

[Guest]

Thanks for that insight. I wondered why the manual said to remove your prop when flushing the engine, I figured that was lawyer talk. Certainly a barrel would be safer, but there is no way I'm removing my prop once or twice a week, every week, for a 10 min flush.....

Chief Alen wrote:
Breakin must be performed under load.

FISHIN00 wrote:
I prefer to use ethonal free gas when I can find it,my motor runs better on it,of course it is more expensive. Running the motor in a barrel goes waaaay back to when I was a kid. Living in Wi, our motors and boats usually sat outside during the winter, so my dad ran them for hrs at the beginning of the season to make sure the motor was ready before hitting the water.(water pumps,fuel lines,shaft seals,electrical issues) Over the years my brother and I just followed the same practice. The nice thing about plastic drums is you can cut them to fit your motor. If you keep a ample amount of water coming in you can engage your prop at idle foward/reverse to make sure your shifters work and check your shaft seals. Also runing in a drum elininates the chance of you hurting your self on a unprotected prop.