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ssobol
Joined: 27 Oct 2012
Posts: 3370
City/Region: SW Michigan
State or Province: MI
C-Dory Year: 2008
C-Dory Model: 22 Cruiser
Vessel Name: SoBELLE
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| colbysmith wrote: | | I leave the batteries in my boat. However I also leave the shore power and charger on the whole time as well. |
Mine also stay on the boat over winter. They are charged before storage and recharged immediately when the boat is recovered from storage. While stored all loads are disconnected. |
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hardee
Joined: 30 Oct 2006
Posts: 12632
City/Region: Sequim
State or Province: WA
C-Dory Year: 2005
C-Dory Model: 22 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Sleepy-C
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| Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2020 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| ssobol wrote: | | colbysmith wrote: | | I leave the batteries in my boat. However I also leave the shore power and charger on the whole time as well. |
Mine also stay on the boat over winter. They are charged before storage and recharged immediately when the boat is recovered from storage. While stored all loads are disconnected. |
Mine stay on the boat and are hooked up continueally to a "BatteryMinder" which has some of the same properties as a batterytender, but also, it has the capability of doing desulfation (sp).
Harvey
SleepyC 
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BBlalock
Joined: 31 Jan 2017
Posts: 140
City/Region: Ocean/ICW
State or Province: NC
C-Dory Year: 2013
C-Dory Model: 25 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Finale
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| Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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Martin,
I am about 45 miles down the road from you. On Bogue Sound.
When I winterize I:
1. Run the pump to push the water out through all the outlets
2. Put 1 gal. of pink in the tank
3. Run pink to all the outlets
4. I then syphon the water heater dry. Garden hose attached to the valve.
5. Run pink to the water heater tank.
6. I leave all outlets in the open position.
So far so good except with my yesterday issue with losing power to my right side switch panel.
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tparrent
Joined: 24 Dec 2009
Posts: 285
City/Region: Apex
State or Province: NC
C-Dory Year: 2017
C-Dory Model: 255 Tomcat
Vessel Name: Tomfoolery
Photos: tparrent (TBD)
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| Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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After a full days work (I’m kinda “special” when it comes to maintenance), the winterize rion is done! Almost.
Forgot to do the wash down spigot. I’ll do that tomorrow. Holding tank macerator is inoperable so didnt do that. Not sure if I’m supposed to hit the bilge pumps.
I did successfully bypass the water heater. I’ll have to tell that story when I have a keyboard in front of me. Quite a tale.
Now I just have to clean up the mess I made while I was neatening up!
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BBlalock
Joined: 31 Jan 2017
Posts: 140
City/Region: Ocean/ICW
State or Province: NC
C-Dory Year: 2013
C-Dory Model: 25 Cruiser
Vessel Name: Finale
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| Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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| BTW in my procedure to winterize I said 1 gal of pink. It'll take 2 or 3 to properly pink all but the cockpit washdown hot line. I will let the siphoning pull that water out while letting it be the vent for the heater siphon. |
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