Tuesday 10-30 Winterizing the Boat

Winterizing the boat

We had a windy day with cool temperatures. Perfect day to do a boat project. 

Our boating season is over. Every year Larry winterizes the boat. We keep the boat in the garage year round and the temperature doesn't get too cold but Larry doesn't like taking chances on the motor freezing up. When Larry winterizes the boat he removes the hoses to drain the water from the cooling system. Then he opens the valves on the engine and drains more water. After the water is drained out he puts the hoses back on, closes the valves and puts the plug back in the boat. Before backing the boat back into the garage we remove the platform so we can walk behind the boat if we need to when its in the garage. Larry also removes the battery, he places it on a shelve in the garage and hooks it up to a charger. Once the boat is back in the garage we cover it. Now the boat is ready for the winter.

One of the hoses Larry drained

Warming up the boat

Draining the water

After Larry finished winterizing the boat he wrote three reviews for the Home Depot Seeds Program. He reviewed the TR Industrial Heat Gun Kit, Milwaukee Material Removal Kit and Milwaukee Impact Wrench Kit. He played with the first two last week and today before writing the review on the Milwaukee Impact Wrench Kit he played with it by removing the lug nuts on the rear wheels of the Minnie. It works great. The Milwaukee Impact Wrench Kit came with a very nice canvass bag to store it in. It was challenging trying to figure out how to put the pieces in the bag considering the same bag is used for other tool kits. Larry went on the internet to see how other people accomplished this task. He finished writing his reviews but didn't submit them because he likes to reread them a day or two after writing them.

Milwaukee Impact Wrench Kit

While Larry was writing his reviews I worked on my puzzle. I'm over halfway assembling it.

Horse of Iron puzzle

In the evening we rented a movie from Amazon called Deadpool, it's a super hero movie. I wasn't impressed. I normally enjoy super hero movies but I thought this one was terrible, but I guess I'm one of the few considering it had a four and a half star rating. Larry knows that I like to stay up and watch British detective series so he subscribed to Acorn via Amazon, it is a British Channel. You get a free seven day trial and after that its 5.99 a month. I started watching a detective series called No Offence.