What did you do to your boat today?

[jEt_jAk]

I started it since it’s been sitting for a month or so. Yup still starts

 

[BDOne]

Could you have installed this valve in the engine compartment for easier access? Seems like it would be very hard to reach where it is now.

Where I have them installed, I can actually reach them though the access panel between the clean-out plugs. If you put them in the engine bay you have to locate them before the flush line T's in behind each engine. There isn't a lot of room there either. To me it made more sense to put them back by the mufflers.

 

[Dean P]

Could you have installed this valve in the engine compartment for easier access? Seems like it would be very hard to reach where it is now.

It's the easiest place to install. The point of access is thru the storage locker port hole cover. Really not hard to get to. Most place it in this location.

 

[Renod]

Had it shrink wrapped

 

[haknslash]

Could you have installed this valve in the engine compartment for easier access? Seems like it would be very hard to reach where it is now.

Some do put the in the engine compartment.

That being said the cleanout tray has an access port to allow you to reach down into the bilge. If you’re being towed you’re going to be on the stern hooking up lines anyways so it’s just easier to remember I would think having it all in the bilge or stern area. Ultimately it’s up to you where you want to put it.

 

[Rascalrider]

Got to a park under the new port stage!

 

[Scuba_ref]

Finally got my trailer registered in Hawaii. Now I'm legal to tow the boat to the harbor to get it registered. Hoping to get it in the water in the next week or so.

 

[Cparker2]

Got to a park under the new port stage!View attachment 108269

@Rascalrider - Love the design - where did you get the metal for the rafters? I’m considering doing the exact same thing but building by hand with wood stick built roof. Metal seems easier and possibly cheaper? Thoughts?

 

[Rascalrider]

@Rascalrider - Love the design - where did you get the metal for the rafters? I’m considering doing the exact same thing but building by hand with wood stick built roof. Metal seems easier and possibly cheaper? Thoughts?

Well I’m not sure what it would have cost to do the metal work with wood instead. I do know the guy got all the material for less than $400 not including roofing and posts. He picked up the metal in Dallas somewhere.

 

[BDOne]

Finally got it under a roof for the winter.

 

[KevJul2019]

Finally got it under a roof for the winter.View attachment 108595

do you put your boat trailer on blocks off the ground?

 

[penziol]

I'd put about 20 mice traps around that bad boy to keep them from messing things up during the winter.

 

[BDOne]

do you put your boat trailer on blocks off the ground?

Unfortunately I can't. It's my brother-in-law's barn, and he may need to move it out of the way at some point. Though getting moved around occasionally may achieve nearly the same result.

I'd put about 20 mice traps around that bad boy to keep them from messing things up during the winter.

My nephew told me they haven't had trouble with mice on the pontoon boat that has been stored in that barn for the past 10 winters. Hopefully they don't like jet boats any more than pontoon boats!

 

[Pro Build]

I cut up Irish Spring bars of soap and put throughout the boat and that is supposed to keep the mice away.

 

[BDOne]

I cut up Irish Spring bars of soap and put throughout the boat and that is supposed to keep the mice away.

Actually, my wife had heard that, so she went out and bought the soap (and left it to me to dice and deploy). I figured what could it hurt? So it's in the boat. Hopefully it doesn't backfire on us!

 

[drewkaree]

The green and red nav light lenses broke. My light is the flip kind. $100 is a lot. Wrong time of the year to be spending lots on the boat.
Turns out I was able to swapped the lights as they were identical. I lucked out and added $70 to the checkbook.

This sounds suspiciously like the kind of math my wife uses when she's out shopping

 

[OCMD]

After several years of this boat (2008 SX230 purchased NEW in 2011, so really only 8 summers of apparently little use) I winterized today, after having the boat out ONCE in 2019. Average summer usage? 23.5 hours. Grand total of 188 hours on the MR1s. I asked my guy if that was alot and he laughed and said the engines will outlive the life of the boat. I guess I will check back in 5 years and see where we are at. Damn those 27 footers looked nice on the lot, but I am not paying 100K plus for a Yamaha jet boat.

 

[Ronnie]

Yesterday I left work early to pick up the cockpit seadek kit I purchased from jet boat pilot on Black Friday. The only surprise was that ups charged me $3 to hold the package at its location instead of leaving it on my porch for as potential porch pirate bait.

 

[mrmeaniemeateaterman]

@Ronnie I would love to see a hidden camera of porch pirates opening your box of seadek and trying to figure out what it is. I have a feeling there would be a lot of "WTFs" and "What do you do with these big foam stickers?"

You will enjoy the seadek, just take the time to prep it correctly to ensure the adhesive last for years to come. Don't rush it.

 

[drewkaree]

The only surprise was that ups charged me $3 to hold the package at its location instead of leaving it on my porch for as potential porch pirate bait.

I wonder if they'd have charged you if you required a signature (3 failed delivery attempts, and they force you to come pick it up)