Get Your Boat Ready For Boating Season! Dewinterize or Spring Commissioning

Spring Commissioning your boat or dewinterizing your boat. If you are a new boater, you might not know what to do to get your boat ready for summer. If you have never gotten a boat ready for for boating season before, there are several things we should do before taking our boat to the ramp for the first trip of the year. In this video I briefly cover some of things we should do before heading out with our boat for the first time after storing the boat for the winter or other long period of storage.
Dewinterizing your boat or is it spring commissioning? Regardless of what we call it, we need to do more than just uncover the boat when we are getting a boat ready for summer. We need to check several things out and make sure everything is in working order - or good enough condition so we don't have a problem at the boat ramp! Getting our boats ready for boating season is something we need to take seriously so that we reduce the risk of problems out on the water.
00:00 Introduction
01:40 Winter Boat cover - Uncover your boat for boating season
02:12 Cleaning your boat after winter storage
02:24 Checking boat batteries and electrical components on the boat before going to the ramp
03:00 Checking the safety equipment on your boat as part of dewinterization
03:18 Checking the engine and drive systems before boating season
04:45 Checking all the fluids on your boat as part of spring commissioning
06:46 Dewinterizing or Spring Commissioning your boat is more than just cleaning
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[@leadreviewer3257]

Totally agree boating is awesome in fresh or salt water just be careful out there occasionally there are some awful accidents. Have fun and be careful

[@Dailyfiver]

This channel has to be one of my favorite boat channels. All of your uploads are either extremely entertaining or extremely useful. Thanks!

[@WayneTheBoatGuy]

Thank you!

[@mrkattm]

All good information but I think you left out some must do's. Change the impeller every year, change engine oil every year, change out drive gear oil every year, lube your propeller shaft, remove the out drive and inspect and grease the gimble bearing and engine alignment, inspect your bellows every year and replace every 2 years, change your spark plugs every year, change your oil filer every year, change your fuel filter every year, change your serpentine belt every year and if you are on salt water change your manifolds and risers every 5 years. Do all of this in spring not the fall because water condensates into the oils and rubber and plastic gets brittle from the heat cycles during the winter. Oh, don't forget about your bilge pump and blower fan (duct hoses get brittle over time) also don't forget your trailer, check the tires, wheel bearings, brakes and lights. Once all of these things are done then you can clean your boat. I am in Florida and I dry stack my boats so I don't have to winterize but still do all the above every spring.

[@cathygertz4500]

Just wanted to thank you for recommending Bar Keepers Friend in one of your other videos that I watched. I had my boat winterized in plastic and it left mold spots all over the boat. I squirt the inside of the the boat down and applied it with a wet washcloth. I couldn't believe my eyes as it came right off! Not to mention how white the inside of the boat looks. Thanks for your tutorials as it helps us newbies out as we learn the boating process!!

[@WayneTheBoatGuy]

Thank you for the kind words! Hope you have a great boating season

[@marty_breeze]

Wayne, I moved to Severna Park with zero boat experience. Over the past week I have been an "a boat one day owner" to suddenly "a boat owner" in literally 7 days of a 1999 Chaparral (2007 engine) I/O. Your videos and explanations from the perspective of a complete novice (and resident of Maryland?) are 100% appreciated, thank you!!!

[@WayneTheBoatGuy]

Congrats! Are you on the Magothy or the Severn?

[@marty_breeze]

@@WayneTheBoatGuy the Severn!

[@MechsWorld]

Wayne great points as we venture into our first full boating season. My skipper and wife stood down yesterday due to weather, we hope to launch Wednesday. Cheers!

[@BurchellAtTheWharf]

6:07 I here yea, the point of a boat is to be out an about an hav n some fun or some fishing

[@just_in_time5518]

Thanks Wayne!

[@barrywarren4221]

I clean my 19 ft. boats 3 times a year, before I get it out for the season, mid summer, and when I put it away. I will pressure wash the out side every time I get back home, that way I won't stead little critters if I go to a different body of water. I trailer all my boats, don't like to leave then in the water.

[@WayneTheBoatGuy]

Yeah when they stay in the water it's harder on everything.

[@MechsWorld]

Hey Wayne need some lady shirts, we have skippers and captains that are not like us, they actually know what they are doing. (:

[@WayneTheBoatGuy]

I thought I had some in there - I will work on that!

[@sunsetatshabooms4558]

Your wife should clean the boat lol (I'm just picturing her face when u tell her this) lol. I clean the inside of the boat & my husband cleans & waxes the outside

[@gillgetter3004]

Yes my little boat gets vacuumed degreaser on all alum and vinyl, a ride to the quarter car wash and a bath on hull and trailer. I started outboard in the driveway and found out my fuel pump wasn’t keeping up anymore( it’s thirty years since of) ordered rebuild kit and rebuilt it and replaced all the fuel and vacuum lines. Ready to get out fishing now👍

[@DJEyeBee]

Have you checked out your exhaust risers since you bought that boat?

[@WayneTheBoatGuy]

I have "sort of" - they both register the same temperature while running and they aren't visibly leaking. This boat is right on the edge of needing several things serviced.

[@AB-bg1or]

If your using river water, that’s not “fresh water” cooled. FWC motors use a heat exchanger that keeps the river water from going through the block. Yours is “raw water” cooled.

[@WayneTheBoatGuy]

Yeah - someone else reminded me of that too! Raw water - that's a really odd name for water!

[@allseriousness]

Floridians are watching this like "what the hell is winterizing?"

[@revolverdon]

Kinda like northerners think "What the hell is a hurricane " !

[@WayneTheBoatGuy]

Yeah lol!

[@MoneyPitBoating]

Hahahahaha right?! We just keep using ours all winter (in Michigan)!

[@parkerjon29]

Floridians are challenged in a lot of ways.

[@austinwhite969]

They’re still trying to fix they’re hurricane damage to the boat 😂

[@quasarcom5041]

Wayne Wayne Wayne … I have to help you again. No your boat is not fresh water cooled. A fresh water cooled motor has a tank of that’s holds fresh water not water from the outside from what ever body of water you are on. I know you would think fresh water cooled would be new water from outside of the boat but it’s not. It’s like mtn biking. The pedals that you put your foot into that has you clipped into are called clip less pedals🤦. I still have a hard time with that one. The term fresh water is referring to clean tap type water with no dirt or salt in it. If you wanted a glass of fresh water you would go to your sink and get fresh water with no dirt or salt in it. Also A outboard does get antifreeze in it. In a proper winterization, you should put antifreeze in a bucket, and then let the engine suck that antifreeze into the cooling system. Now no one really empties it it out in the spring there is not that much in there.

[@WayneTheBoatGuy]

Ahhh right. I was looking this up after reading your comment - so mine is “raw water” cooled. For some reason I thought the two main systems were closed and fresh - but I should have said “raw”.

[@quasarcom5041]

@@WayneTheBoatGuy No problem just wanting you to be a very smart boat guy. Lol I love your channel. I have a Sylvan 14 utility and a Four Winns outboard boat . Well I also have a brand new never used. Blue water sailboat. I am the one that used to be a executive with a major boat manufacturer in my working years. I have messaged you on a few things. Just trying to help

[@AB-bg1or]

The antifreeze won’t stay in an outboard. If stored properly, vertical, it will run out. Some people do it to get the anti corrosion properties through the cooling system, but fresh water is fine. I always flush with salt a way anyways.