When do you start getting excited for the upcoming season??

[WiskyDan]

- Purchase new bow/stern snap-on covers. The snap-on covers that came with the boat are a bit stiff/worn/faded and the last couple of snaps are really hard to get aligned - especially when you get older and your hands hurt all of the time. Trying to get a canvas place lined up for this may be the biggest hurdle - people don’t seem to return phone calls anymore.

@WiskyDan ..... have your canvas shop install the rear snaps for your cockpit cover with the bungee-type connectors that allow the canvas to shrink and swell (on a daily basis) and save your fingers.

The four connectors on the stern of my current cover are bungee. Is this what you’re referring to or some of the side snaps as well?

 

[mkbcaptain]

I got to go out one day In December when it hit 71, and will be going out (overnight) on Saturday. The season should be wide open here in a few weeks.
Usually mid Feb I start getting super excited.

 

[FTBS311]

Picked up our Boat 3wks ago. Headed out tomorrow for first time. 70's in SC this week. Cant wait for Summer!!

 

[Canuckjetboater]

The four connectors on the stern of my current cover are bungee. Is this what you’re referring to or some of the side snaps as well?

@Wisky..... I did mean the stern canvass bungee-type attachments. For coskpit cover tightness/difficulty of using side snaps - I use the center pole of the cockpit cover to control the tightness on the side snaps as in less height and therefore less tension created by the pole = looser canvass = easier to do side snaps.

 

[W3bexec]

Excitement for me starts first of May but the weather never cooperates until the end of May .

 

[RiverRat]

I’m still holding out for a few more snowboard trips, then usually mid April I’m starting to think about bringing the boat home and getting it ready.

 

[Bluewater272]

First 70 degree day I usually get pretty excited - so tomorrow. Will wait until April before I remove the shrinkwrap and put the mooring cover on.

 

[Canuckjetboater]

..... about 10 minutes after I put it in storage for the winter - so I've been excited for a h3ll of a long time now!

 

[WiskyDan]

@Wisky..... I did mean the stern canvass bungee-type attachments. For coskpit cover tightness/difficulty of using side snaps - I use the center pole of the cockpit cover to control the tightness on the side snaps as in less height and therefore less tension created by the pole = looser canvass = easier to do side snaps.

I don’t even put the poles in......... :-/

 

[zipper]

It's Spring now. It won't be long. After seeing this arial pic. of the Lake taken yesterday. Good stretch of weather coming next week. Going to the boatyard tomorrow to take off the Winter cover. The pictures are of the New York side on top and the Vermont side on the bottom. Not much ice seen until Malletts Bay and the outer bay and the Inland sea to the North.

This is the middle section of a 120mi. long lake

 

[haknslash]

Woohoo halfway to full pool! We will be on the water in 2-3 weeks if all goes well. ?

 

[swatski]

Woohoo halfway to full pool! We will be on the water in 2-3 weeks if all goes well. ?

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SO envious. Our lake still f@#$ing frozen ?

Oh well. We did some driveway boating today.
I Rejex'ed the hull and my helper 303'ed everything else.

Although... she was drinking on the job


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[BRosen]

I’m in KY here...it’s been sunny and in the mid to upper 60s this weekend. I’ve told everyone when it’s 72 and sunny, I’m taking it out. Should be in the next 2-3 weeks. Hopeful!

 

[haknslash]

SO envious. Our lake still f@#$ing frozen ?

Oh well. We did some driveway boating today.
I Rejex'ed the hull and my helper 303'ed everything else. View attachment 144884

Although... she was drinking on the job
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Yea I couldn’t handle that cold white stuff!! No way!!! At least with y’all cleaning it then she will be ready to go. I cleaned and waxed mine when I tucked her away last November. Need to try that Rejex sometime as I’ve read good things on it.

I was worried last Wednesday when we had a big storm system come through though. I think last count I read was 21 tornadoes in our state last Wednesday. I’ll gladly take the rain though as it will speed up the filling process lol. My insurance layup doesn’t stop until May but I’m going to get out before then. Hard to resist some much needed R&R on the boat with all this craziness going on in the world!

 

[zipper]

When the Ice goes out in the pool.



And Shelburne bay.

 

[Babin Farms]

When the Ice goes out in the pool.

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And Shelburne bay.

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Should be by the end of the week with the weather you'll be having ?

 

[zipper]

Should be by the end of the week with the weather you'll be having ?

Definetly, if not today. It still gets down to freezing temps at night, good for sap collection. A southern wind will push that ice out and the fact that 70+° is expected for thursday, 60's daytime until then, it won't last long. It is pretty amazing that two years ago we and half of the city were walking out to the breakwater off Burlington. It was a little earlier in the month on March 9th, but still.

 

[WiskyDan]

It was in the 60's here yesterday and I rolled out the new floaty mat on the lawn and laid on it............

 

[WiskyDan]

Shit‘s about to get real........

I pull the boat out of storage Monday morning and my April boat tour begins:

4/5 - 4/9: Drop off at canvas place in Neenah for new bow/stern snap-on covers
4//12 - 4/17: Drop off at audio shop in Port Washington for new speakers and amp (three pair of JL 6.5’s, a pair of JL 7.7’s, and an 8 channel JL amp)
4/19 - 4/24: Back to the Yamaha dealer in Oshkosh to get it run up for the season - oil/plugs, new batteries installed, new Garmin 73sv installed.
4/26 - 4/30: Drop off at my dry-stack marina in Oshkosh where the trim tabs will be installed by their service guys.

5/1: Boat goes into the stack and hopefully on the water by the middle of the month if Mother Nature cooperates.

At some point during April I want to bring it home to install the SeaDek that I purchased during the group buy at the end of last season. We pulled the carpet and carpet snaps and filled the holes with 3M 5200 sealant before it went into winter storage so this should go smoothly.

What is going to complicate things is that I‘m traveling the entire month of April for work - most weeks Monday thru Friday. This is the main reason that I rarely do any of the work to my boat on my own - I just don’t have the time.

Hopefully I’ll have a bit of sanity, and a few bucks left in savings, when this is all said and done.

 

[WiskyDan]

Picked her up this morning and dropped off at the canvas place. Is it unusual to hug your boat after not seeing it for 5 months?