Put the Stabil in the tank when you go out on the lake for the last time. If you just put it in the tank without running the engine it won't get up into the fuel lines and into the fuel injectors...

In case you wonder how I winterize in Minnesota, where it gets REALLY cold (sorry no cruiser experience, just a ski boat). Get the engine warmed up, which makes sure the thermostat is open. I change the oil at the same time since its easier to get the oil out when its warm. Next I empty the strainer bowl, disconnect the raw water hose before the transmission cooler, and pull all the drain plugs and remove the water. Put the plugs back in with fresh teflon tape, then I have a 5 gallon bucket with a bottom hose that I plug into the trans cooler instead of the lake pickup. Put in 4 gallons of pink antifreeze, start the boat at idle, and dump in the last gallon when the level drops. Turn off the engine when the bucket is empty. Pull the battery and bring it in a warm place. Been doing it this way for years, and that boat is my baby. It has survived many -30 winters.

Lower the foot (outdrive) to drain the water in that. You could also convert it to a closed system with antifreeze and you won’t have to worry about draining the block. We did that so that we could have heat in our boat.

Sunrises and sunsets never get old.

I always change the foot oil in the out drive to make sure there is no water in it with the oil. I had one freeze and break when I did not do that.

I’m already looking forward to some more of your boating adventures next year. Stay safe.

I just winterized my 99 454 Mercruiser a few weeks ago. The steps I took were 1. Run to operating temperature-change oil and filter 2. Run again, spray fogging oil into intake until it shuts off and dies 3. Pull each plug and spray a small amount of fogging oil 4. Pull 5 blue plugs and replace them with new (2 under manifolds, 2 on the side of the block 1 underneath the right side under a copper pipe-this one is quite the pain 5. Pulled off any lower hoses that could have water trapped, and reattach (Impellar, cooler lines) 6. Pull top two large hoses off top of and fill to the top with RV antifreeze until it comes out the other side of the thermostat (As others have said I’ve read that leaving it dry can cause rust and potentially not get pockets of water in there) 7. Drain and replace drive oil

This girl is awesome. There just a great pair all together.

Hi. I have just started following your channel ans it is a pleasure honestly to do it. I love your harmony and how you respect the family traditions as well as showing every step you do take and asking for help as well. God bless you both and your little dogy.

Great video. An ounce of prevention...... Thank you for your time.

Enjoyed this. Decades ago a fella I knew had a Trojan with twin 454's. Never rode on it, just liked hearing all the maintenance done on it, and dodging fool a holes he avoided on open water. I had way less stress paddling my cheap canoe.

Like #79 ..nicer to see the sun and folks in short sleeves ... -5 degrees celsius here in Canada this morning ...

Look into Marine Stabil, 1 oz treats 10 gal, and treats ethanol, water, and cleans. I run it on every fill up. I'd also recommend running engine to treat injectors. You also need to pull the hoses on the back of the water pump to drain, and you should have blue drains on the cool fuel on the port side of the engine, as well as one below the engine water pump. You also probably saw you have drain plugs on the exhaust manifolds where you pulled the hoses. Need to rinse the star brite hull cleaner, its acid and will thin the gel coat if left on there.

Good video with some all around tips for any kind of recreational vehicle. We put small pieces (1" x 1" approx.) of the original Irish Spring soap in all our drawers and scattered around on the floor to keep the mice out. That worked great for us. Also left about three tubs of air dryer in our camper. Looking forward to seeing you on the water next year. Thanks for Sharing!

I've found that it's a good idea to cover all open ports to keep out mice and insects. Screen or steel wool. I had a war with stink bugs and mice before. Many hours of suffering.

also , drains that appear to have "already drained" take a piece of stiff wire and poke it into the hole and wiggle it around. these drains are at the low part of the water jacket and rust collects there blocking the drain hole

Nice work - great piece of mind when they’re all packed up nicely. I make fogging oil part of my winterising routine. Sprayed in the carb when the engine is running. Then into the bores after taking sparks out. Oh and also drain fuel from carburettor 🙂

Easy way for the engine is a sump pump in a bucket full of rv antifreeze run the engine as normal while pumping in antifreeze as coolant till it comes out the outlet

Jippii and wow. Great job. Awesome video again. More such videos, I do look at them all. Greetings from Finland.

Great video, stunning shots with the the fog and sun. Thanks for sharing.

that looks so relaxing, and peaceful....have fun

Finley is so cute and I love his shop dog collar stay safe.

Picking up my 1992 Malibu 11/22/21 from winterization. Manifolds drained, fogged power plant, new oil and filter, new thermostat, and the best...new steering cable and helm. No stabilizer this year, my fuel is filled to the brim, oops, oh well it will be fine. It's going to steer so well next season. Next is a new galvanized trailer. It's pricey but worth it since we are in salt water so often and our 29 year old trailer is falling apart with rust. We are using a battery tender for the first time. Batteries are expensive. Glad you all got to take it out one more time. Shoot, it's 79 degrees here in Napa, CA today, 11/20/21, we could have gone out if it wasn't at the shop. Haha. Thanks for the video! Have a great Thanksgiving!

Good job. My boat has 2 batteries. I hard mounted the 2 bank battery tender from Deltran in my boat. Now I just run an extension cord to the boat, open the flap and plug it in. I ran the tender to an external RV plug.

Looks like lake water is warmer than the air temp at the lake, plus high dewpoint contributes to some ground fog on the water. My home lake(Lake Havasu)is usable year round, but water temps drop drastically to about 45 degrees by end of December. No issues with freezing temps either in the AZ desert! I run some fuel stabilizer in my boat when parking for winter weeks(both weeks, LOL), but the gas ends up getting siphoned out of both tanks for my thirsty Suburban(10 mpg, 5 mpg in town w/big block Chevy engine), so it doesn't go to waste. I top my tanks up in spring with fresh premium fuel & Stabil, & run the boat for about 30 min. in the driveway and then service as needed. Drop all oils out in the fall and refill with fresh oils of your choice, then grease all fittings, then it is ready to go in spring. Battery tender is always plugged in if boat is in the garage, so no worries there, batteries get replaced every 3 years in the desert. Glad to see you guys had a nice last trip for the season! Thanks for another cool video!

Such a wonderful couple. Please take care of each other, as the years pass by so quickly.

Good time to repack wheel bearing so they are ready for the next year i see alot of trailers on the side of the road because people forget about that

That sunrise looked great!

Beautiful Beautiful boats love this channel! And thanks for the coupon code 😀 be safe

Learned a trick for pulling pink antifreeze through the rv system. We always bypassed the water heater and never put it in the water tank. We built a little contraption that screws onto the water pump in place of the feed line from the tank. You then put the line from the screw on contaption into the antifreeze jug. Turn your taps on and it pulls the antifreeze through the lines to your sink(s). Once they are all done, remove your homemade contraption, reattach the line from the water tank (tank is empty) and turn the taps on again. It pulls the bulk of the antifreeze out of the lines and only leaves it in the low spots. We had a grey water tank on our 370 Searay and the antifreeze would drain through the pump into the tank winterizing those lines. Our Thompson prior to the Searay drained out the side of the boat and we put a bucket there. Then we used that to flush down the toilet into the black water tank. Don't know if there's anything you can get from that but I'm sure you two can create an attachment to the pump into the antifreeze as easily as anybody! PS...it can get pretty cold here in southern British Columbia and we never had any issues and less pink stuff coming out of the taps in the spring.

with the drought here in CA I've only had our boat twice this year! both times on the Sacramento River, we normally like to boat at Folsom Lake but it has been too low this year!

Just winterized my Sea Ray 268. It's definitely a process to do it right but better safe than sorry!

Looks like you have done a fair job of winterizing!

On the port side of the engine , there is the oil cooler that has water running through it. The plug is near impossible to get at, so if you can disconnect the hose that goes to it and hold it down below the pump to drain the water out would be a good idea, Freeze and crack the intercooler and you'll hate the trouble it is to replace it.. Much like the water pump was!!! Also, when you pull the plugs on the block , take a small screw driver and stick it in the hole and clean out the sand and grit. With the water system, just run the water out and put the antifreeze in the water tank run the taps till it runs pink.

Awesome as always. God bless.

spray engine down with wd-40 or crc 6-56. coat as much of the engine as you can. I do the trim pump, steering actuator at the stern and any electrical parts in the eng. compartment

We keep our boat in our hanger as well. Tuck it behind our Velocity and still leaves us room for the couch and recliner for those hanger flying meetings. Lol

Always excellent viewing Well done Love you guys 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙏⭐️

🤘🤘🤘Have a great weekend with that Finley.😜

For the plumbing system-- It is recommended to put water through the lines by either sucking it through the water pump or putting gallons in the fresh tank. For my RV I do the water pump, and fresh tank. For the boat, I do the water pump. It ensures the lines will not crack.

Over the winter I put a couple Dry-Z-Air moisture absorbers inside our boat. They use calcium chloride crystals to absorb any excess humidity.

I dont know if it was right or wrong but I always drain my out drive unit oil and refill in the spring and I also always pull my impeller in spring and Vaseline it up. I live in oregon and it gets really cold here. It's something I like to do and a good way to make sure your out drive is in good condition.

Outstanding love your videos and y’all too

Just remove the blue plugs on the bottom of the exhaust manifolds vs pulling the hoses, thats what they are there for.

Put the antifreeze in your fresh water tank and run water until pink comes out of all your fixtures. We do this for our camper as well.

We used to use syringes and hoses to push the antifreeze into faucets until it flushed all the way to the lower faucets to keep the plumbing from freezing in houses of the nearby beach town that was pretty much a ghost town during the winter here in NC.

I suggest setting up bypass on cabin water heater guessing you have one because of the 2 knobs on the faucet then use the pump to get RV antifreeze into the entire system heater drained and bypassed only takes 1-2,, gallons even filling the drains. Cheaper then replacing stuff. Love the content you guys are fun to watch.

I agree. End of boat season is the worst time of year

Take a gallon of pink stuff and pour it down the water intake hose to push all the water out of the stern drive. You will be surprised how much water is in the stern drive. Probably not needed, but I do the same with the engine block. Take off all the hoses and pour some pink stuff down all the hose fittings until you see some pink stuff come out the block and manifolds. Also, add the stabilizer to the fuel before your last run. This way the stabilizer gets into the fuel rails and injectors (or carburetor) and keeps that fuel from going bad over winter. Everything else looked pretty solid.

So glad i live in the tropics and can use the boat all year and dont have this hassle

They make really nice multi battery tenders that you can hard Mount in the boat and have a permanent designated plug outlet. All you have to do is plug it in with a extension cord.

Ya'll blessed to have that kind of weather. Here in Stockholm we got the season's first snow and it's 6 degrees below freezing.

Love your videos. God Bless you.

Slowly eating cheesecake with salted caramel drizzle and watching a Flying Sparks video is a doubly sweet way to spend 20 min.

My family really enjoys seeing how you take your projects in stride and work together to make the dream happen. We sold our little Alumacraft so we could upgrade to a cabin cruiser. Now we are refitting our new to us 1992 LUND 2250 Sport Cabin. I grew up vacationing at Brady Mountain campground and boating all over that beautiful lake. The best memories of my childhood. We plan to haul our new boat down from Alpine, Wyoming for the spring/ summer 2022 for a week of island camping. Your invited to join us! And if your ever wanting to explore the Wyoming/ Yellowstone region I suggest coming up this summer for 4th of July or our car show in August! Here is a link to our before restore sea trial!

I used something similar to this on my Baja inboard! Style: Winterizing Kit Winterizing Kit $40.77$40.77 In Stock.

Finely needs his own channel 🐶😀

Didn't feel to read all the comments, but I would suggest using a full sized compressor to blow out all the lines. do some pipefitting to adapt a fiiler hose connection to an airline quick connect and hook up about 20 psi to the line making sure you have one faucet open and then cycle thru all the other faucets and toilet, opening one at a time leaving the previous one open so as not to pressurize the lines with air pressure .after all the lines are cleared pour a little plumber anti freeze in the tank and run the pump for a few seconds. this will save you repairing lines every year which is how I learned

make sure you guys always stay united as a couple. fame sometimes comes in the way and causes irreparable damages to a family. you guys look great together, keep it that way.

OMG!! Jiffy Pop! I haven't seen that stuff in a long time. Winterizing.... I never think about it living in Florida. We can use our boats 24/7, 365. Come on down! :-)

I Drain the fresh water tank and add two gallons of anti-freeze. Then turn on sinks and fresh was rinse so whole system is full of anti-freeze. Also make sure shower box has some. Add anti freeze to empty black water tank and discharge some so that system also has anti-freeze. Also water intake strainers to systems. Good luck Cheers 🤘🏻

Jiffypop! omg! I live in PA and have a seasonal camp. Winterize it every year, and the anti-freeze is much cheaper, and less problem that a broken line!!! Buy more, waste more, if needed, sleep better!! Know what I am getting at?

if you dont run antifreeze thru the engine, there may be 2 of those blue plugs in your belt serpentine belt driven raw water pump. may also be one in the oil cooler which is in the water intake hose usually on the port side of the engine or behind the distributor.

On the cabin cruiser you should pour some ain’t freeze down and the bilge and run it a big to keep that pump from freezing!!

My winterizing process, move to Arizona for the season. 😎

I assume you are on Lake Ouachita what a beautiful area. I visit the area when I can and spent much of my youth on the River that feeds the lake. My grandfather was a Minister and we have pictures of him conducting baptism services at the low water bridge in Sims Ark just a few smiles from the main lake in 1920’s.

To winterize, I fill the engine block with the pink anti-freeze, then remove the plugs. I have 4 plugs. 2 on the exhaust, and 2 on the engine block. I remove those, and let drain. That way, the pink anti-freeze is in whatever engine or exhaust cavity where water couldn't get out. I also put down the stern drive, that way, the bellows won't stretch or tear for the out drive while the boat is sitting in storage. I remove the battery, and completely cover the boat to keep rodents out. I remove EVERYTHING and store contents in a storage tote in my garage. I have a 17' open bow boat with a Mercruiser 3.0 and Alpha 1 stern drive. When I bought the boat , the 4 drain plugs were already on the engine and exhaust. You may also have drain plugs on the engine block and exhaust. Putting the stern drive down is something I learned, having to replace all 3 bellows after only 12 hours of operation the prior year.

You did a good job on winterising the boats. You could also put the trailers on stands so the tires are less stressed during the winter period.

When winterizing a bravo it is important to drain the seawater pump and powersteering cooler as well I don't know if you did but hopefully you did.

Never realized just how big the cabin boat was til it was parked beside the other one, that thing is huge.

Boat life 👍

antifreeze down the drains and I blow all the water lines out with an adapter I made for the compressor, drain the water tank and water heater! then the fuel stabil and battery! don't forget a mousetrap or two!

Your head scarf reminds me of Rosie the riveter.

Emily beautiful as always and another great video love to watch you and you're husband you both are awesome wonderfully amazing and humble people. Wish you both and you're family's a great Thanksgiving and merry Christmas

Your such a beautiful and talented woman. Love your channel that shows what a great team you and your Husband are in everything from boats, cars and your RV trailer. Truly inspiring!

So good to see people using common sense and spending a few minutes to clean and winterize their boats. You hear people complain about spending $$ on their bait every year and how it spoils the experience. But if everyone did what you guys are doing. In this video 95% of the complaints would go away. Nice to see smart sensible young couple living their lives with gusto and using their brains.

On my 26’ hard top shamrock I just rig a hose, tee and a valve off of raw water inlet. Select the hose. Put the hose in a pale which holds 2 gallon of the pink low temp antifreeze. Turn on the engine. Watch for the pink to come out of the exhaust. Turn off the engine. Select the valve to seawater. And I am done. 12 years in coastal NJ. Never had a problem with engine ice. Never drained the corroded drain ports on the risers and heat exchangers. Now rain in the bilge freezing was a bother.

beautiful peoples with awesome toy. god bless you guys may you enjoy life to the fullest. ( :

The boats all cozy in the hangar, so is the plane parked next to the house? 😆 🤣

I always drain the gear grease out of the lower drive unit just in case it has any water in it and refill it with fresh gear oil. You don't want any water in there, if there was enough water in there and it got cold enough it could crack the case and thats some big $$$$ to replace.

Get a dehumidifier in the big boats cabin

A quick tip for winterizing sink drains in boats and RVs is to first blow out the water in the P trap with an electric leaf blower. I just place the outlet of the blower pointing down onto the drain, then take a barely damp rag and rap it around for a better seal if needed and blow the water out for a few seconds. This way the trap is almost entirely full of RV winterizing solution instead of a mixture.

On your Malibu there should be a garden hose connection between the exhaust manifolds. If not I installed them in all my hoses on my hoses in my sunsetter. Makes it quick.

Hook up a bypass hose off the pump intake side put hose into gallon of antifreeze pump it threw the system just like doing an rv

also a good idea to run the fuel stabilizer in your gas before you use the boat for the last time of the season

Hello I believe there is a additive that you add to fuel and directly into the carburetor.

I like Finley's new collar. It suits him.

Hello, I learned the hard way that storing my cast iron block engine dry, lead to the cylinder casting in the water jacket to rust through. I suggest always storing with a coolant in the block to prevent it.

make a air adapter for your water fill and hook up your air hose with 15 psi on it and then open your facetts to clear out all water lines. after you clear your water lines then fill your drains.

You should do a video on winterizing your Cessna !

Jiffy Pop popcorn 🍿 they still make that stuff

LOL that Malibu looks like a dinghy next to that big Bayliner. So glad that big cruiser is working out for y'all and pretty reliable. What size engine is in the Malibu? 350?

hello, do you cool the engine with seawater directly without a heat exchanger ?

Hook the ear muffs up to the stern drive and run engine up to 1200 rpm for 5-10 minutes. Shut engine off. Hook up flush kit to ear muffs. Pour pink safe antifreeze into flush kit bucket. Start engine and keep bucket resupplied with antifreeze until you see it discharge out stern drive ( water will turn pink). Shut off engine. Engine is now safe to -50°. Empty fresh water tank. Put 2 gallons of safe antifreeze into tank. Run water pump and allow all sinks to run until they run pink. Empty black tank. Dump 2 gallons down head to winterize sewage systems. Dump some in shower until you hear shower sump running. Run generator intake hose into a bucket and put a 1/2 gallon of pink stuff in bucket. Start generator and let all fluid get sucked out of bucket , then shut it off.

Better to add stabil to fuel then run the engine for a few minutes if you have a carbureted engine you should add a fuel shut off valve and shut the fuel off and let the carburetor run out of fuel.. also run the pink anti freeze thru your bilge pumps and dump some down your lower water pump hose… add some small bowls of mothballs in your boat to keep the mice away during the winter months

I use a wet/dry vacuum cleaner to suck through manifolds and the engine and dry it out.

While in Mt Ida you need to get a milkshake at the Dairyette

a bit late to comment..the exhaust manifolds are expensive..i live on kodiak alaska...i use my boat in salt water but i have a closed cooling system,a better system if you run in salt water..actually just a better system..no sand circulating through the engine...getting to the point.salt(raw) water still goes through the exhaust manifolds..i flush all the salt out then drain ...then i plug everything up (exhaust manifolds)and fill with a mixture of cheap anti freeze..the anti freeze has corrosion inhibiters,helps keep the inside of the exhaust manifolds in better condition.they rust from the inside out..in your case,since theres no anti freeze inside your engine,that to will be rusting from the inside out..i,ve been getting 10+ years out of a set of manifolds doing it this way..nice boat..thanks for the vids

You are a lucky guy ;)

Emily, you are so funny! "We are not experts at anything....."