Do I need to winterize?

[jaceaser]

Last year I winterized my boat(2008 Tige RZ4), but unfortunately I did not use it this year. The only thing I had done was maintenance and a check back in July. It never saw water, do I still need to winterize? I live in central Texas.

[chpthril]

if the engine was run, it needs protecting again, even though the boat wont get a complete winterizing. if there is room, id maybe add some fresh fuel to it and some more layup treatment.

[freeheel4life]

^^x2 if it was run by a shop they ran it on a "fake a lake" which means water is in block, manifolds, exchangers, hoses etc. Hopefully when y'all had snow down there it wasn't a hard freeze. Don't know much about Texas tho. If it you were here you'd definitely be out an engine.

[jaceaser]

It generally doesn't get too cold and when we had snow it didn't stay below freezing very long. Generally freezing days are preceded by 70/80 degree weather. So while it may have gotten to 31 degrees by the afternoon it was in the 50's/60's. I'll schedule an appointment and get it winterized this week. We are expecting some cooler weather this weekend .

[chpthril]

Takes 30 minutes to drain the system. We would ride year round and I would do it right there on the ramp after pulling the boat out of the water.

[Jetdriver]

^This! Take a look into the how to section. There’s a good write up on winterizing your setup on there. The Marine Power engine is stupid easy to drain as are the other steps to winterizing. Save yourself $3-400 doing it yourself in a half hour, hour tops, plus it’s empowering knowing you can take care of your own stuff!