Well, have you started it yet? Just doing a roll call to see who’s getting ready.

I pulled mine out of storage and started it this weekend. She roared like a lion… No issues to report. I’m ready.

If my lake wasn't closed due to flooding, I'd be boating.

No. It's still in storage the last time I talked to my parents. Bummer part is that I don't think I will be going home this Summer. Not at home ='s no boat.

what was I thinking...I will never know.

Anyways, I envy those who have

It was started to do the engine survey and compression check...then rewinterized. I will probably pull her home and fire her up in two to three weeks.

I'm jealous. It's going to feel weird not bringing the boat home to get it ready.

Already been on the water. In a few weeks it should be warm enough to take the baby out.

Stay tuned, mine is in the driveway as of last Tuesday. Going tomorrow to have the guy start on the cockpit cover, then hoping against hope to fire it up on Saturday!

We attempted to move into the houseboat this weekend, and get the Bayliner out of storage and ready to go. As usual, Murphy was the monkey on my back. Friday evening was spent getting power and making sure the fireplace was working. First up, the pilot light on the fireplace wasn't big enough to hit the thermocouple. Found out a spider laid some eggs in the pilot tube. Got fire, let's plug in. And, I find the electric cord was shorting out where I had it looped around the railing. $92 for a new 100' 10 gauge extension cord fixed that. The wind howling all night kept us up half the night, but we were warm.

Saturday, I was going to grab 50 gallons of water and flush the antifreeze out of the lines. I go looking for the water barrel, and find it was a mess (was used to help drain a pond). So I take some soap and rags so I can clean it out. I get my water, with permission, about a half mile from the lake at a cabinet place with an outside faucet. I get there and find the cabinet place is now a landscape place. Now I have to drive 3 more miles to get my water. No biggie. I clean the barrel, fill it and come back. Oddly enough, my spare water pump works flawlessly, and I fill the tank. I hook up the lines to the pump, hit the switch, and naturally, I got a leaky hose fitting. Fixed that, then proceed with flushing the lines. After running 10 gallons thru the lines, I still couldn't get the water to run clear, kept getting antifreeze suds and smell. Oops, forgot about the accumulator. Filled and flushed it a couple of times...Finally, after my 2 hour job took pretty much all day, we got water. We hit the hay, and about 2 am, I wake up and it's colder than it should be. I walk into the living room, and I see no pilot light--the fireplace emptied the propane tank. Other than a small heater on low, we got no heat. It got down to about 27 last night, but the boat only got down to 45 and the admiral brought lots of blankets so we were warm enough. Today was spent cleaning filthy windows and other general cleaning. And in the afternoon the next stormm started blowing in, got down into the 40's. Forecast for the week sucks, so---we decided to come home for a few more days.

Never did go get the Bayliner. But I did get the motorhome running. Fired right up. So, to stay on topic ( ) I did get ONE engine started! Hopefully I'll be so lucky with the 4 boat engines! (And hopefully Murphy will leave me alone next weekend!)

F14: What the hellfire were we thinking?

FR: Hopefully next weekend goes better.

Coming soon, did yard work over the weekend. I wore my Carhart yesterday so there is still a nip in the air.

I am postponing my dryland commissioning for a couple of weeks. It is supposed to get down to 25 overnite here later this week.

I did get the battery charged and got the props off for a trip to the shop for reconditioning.

Man, I just checked the forecast this morning, it already changed. Last nite on the news it was 25 for Thursday, now the weatherbug shows 40 for the lowest thru Saturday. I am still waiting the 2 weeks though.

I fired mine up on Sunday. It sounded so nice! Gotta love that big block rumble!

You've at least got a boat!

I pulled in the driveway the other evening and my 3.5YO says from the back seat, "Daddy, I think we should go boating." My wife just chuckled.

It's time. Probably in the next couple of weekends the work will begin.

Next Saturday at the latk!

Just got my cyl. heads back from the porting shop Fri. Will be on and fired up in the next 3 weeks. Some port-match work to do to the intake now first and gaskets are on order (including spark plug indexing washers).

Sure want to see how she runs.

Did the ice go out by you guys? It's still two weeks away here.

Did it today. Of course that is because we bought the boat last week and brought her home last night. I still got to start her up and hear the engine, she purrs like a kitten, now that the cable to the starter is nice and tight. The water here is still very high and full of debris due to the recent heavy storms. Hopefully next weekend we can do some fishing.

looks like we'll pick her up from winter storage in two more weeks, hopefully won't get any more snow past then. I'll be so impatient once she's home that I'm sure I'll change the plugs and fire up then!

Can't wait to be on the water again.