DouglasMB
New Member
Ok can anyone help me out... I get my first real boat next week... I do have someone to take me out and give me a (forgive the pun) crash course. The boat is not huge it's a 25.5ft sea ray amberjack 255 with 2 185 inboard mercs.
I am trying to ready myself for this new member of my family... I am looking at this almost like having an elderly family member come over to live with me... they are going to need a lot of care... cost a lot of money... but once they are in your life you can never ever think about your life without them. But I am not a nurse lol so can you folks help me with a checklist.
I want to create a checklist of things I need to do on a regular, semi regular, anual, semi anual basis.
like how often to you wax it, change the oil, fuel aditive, all that...
Anything you maybe take for granted as common sense, you have to realize I have never had a boat so it will not be so common to me at the moment... first step is asking the questions... second... leanrning the answers.
thanks
The boat is comming from a freash water area (lake Erie) and will be used in NC in brakish/salt water...I am trying to ready myself for this new member of my family... I am looking at this almost like having an elderly family member come over to live with me... they are going to need a lot of care... cost a lot of money... but once they are in your life you can never ever think about your life without them. But I am not a nurse lol so can you folks help me with a checklist.
I want to create a checklist of things I need to do on a regular, semi regular, anual, semi anual basis.
like how often to you wax it, change the oil, fuel aditive, all that...
Anything you maybe take for granted as common sense, you have to realize I have never had a boat so it will not be so common to me at the moment... first step is asking the questions... second... leanrning the answers.
thanks
because of the 10 ft beam I will not trailer it at the moment. It is getting deliverd to the boat yard and they are going to put it in the water and I will keep it in a slip.
the engines?? I don't know anything other than my father told me it has 2, and they are in board 4 cy 185 mercruisers.
it has a 120 gal tank and 3 battries... a head, a stove, is set with all the eletronics it needs but I do not know what models or the age of them at this point.
It was used for fishing on lake erie, but he was a factory worker not a comercial fisherman so its just a casual cruiser cudy cabin i think you would call it.
I can not think of what else to say... ask anything...