Please critique my take - I think saltwater may be too much of a hassle to keep boating …

[USMC(ret)]

Allrighty; so I dont hijack this thread, I created another:

New 320 Sundancer 2002

It was recommended I post up my new purchase, so here goes… Originally posted here: https://www.1911addicts.com/threads/three-hour-tour.221154/#post-3225221 (Now y’all gonna see where I get my memes from!)

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[GypsmJim]

I had a long standing job that i really liked. One of my co-workers frequently boated with me. He got a promotion and took it, requiring him to move to the home office, which was in a salt water area.

We kept in touch and every time we talked it seemed that he was having boat problems. He finally scrapped his old SeaRay and moved to fresh water and got a new job.

Years later I was REQUIRED to move. I quit. I'm still in fresh water and my boat still runs perfect.

 

[Captsteve427]

I’ve had boats on a freshwater lake in Georgia for 25 years and loved it. We just moved to a brackish river in Annapolis, MD, 8 miles upstream from the Chesapeake, and I fully expected to get a new boat up here. But I’ve been researching boat and engine maintenance in saltwater and frankly, I’m just falling out of love with the idea. At the lake, I never washed my boat, never flushed the engine, had professional maintenance done once a year and had 99% fun with 1% diligence. I’m talking to people up here who spend 30-60 minutes after each use washing, flushing, conditioning with additives, etc. Really, if I was facing an extra 30-60 minutes of labor every time I got in my car, it’d be a major deterrent for me to want to drive. So is my take realistic or am I missing something here?

After use, it takes me 20-minutes to flush both my engines and another 20 to put the aft canvas on and hose down the entire exterior of the boat. This leaves me having to only wash it every other week, which I'll have my detailer do once in a blue moon. That's been my procedure for each of the 10-boats I've owned over the last 40-years as a saltwater boater and my OCD would not be satisfied with any other schedule, whether I was boating in fresh, or salt water.