Southerner looking at a cold front?

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JediJD

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'07 42SS Carver, full electronics array
'03 380DA, RL80C+, ST7001, Kohl 7.3,4kw o/array sold
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8.1S Crusader express drives
Oops. Laugh away friends from Canada and Minnesota, but Metro Atlanta is looking at several days where temperatures at night will be falling into the presumably deadly range of below 25 degrees. All supermarkets are being stripped bare of bread and milk...not particularly sure why that particular combination, but it is sort of customary down here. Anyway, when my boat was delivered, it was winterized. In my hubris, I flushed the pink stuff, started engines and generators, and I guess expected to keep the freeze gods away through goat sacrifice. Now I am a little worried and short of goats. The boat is on shore power. I re-read ever manual until my eyes glazed over and probably overreacted (go figure). I went today and made sure the cabin heaters were on at 50-60 degrees. I drained the previously full water tanks to about 1/3 and added several gallons of pink stuff. I then went to the fore and aft wash downs and ran water through them until pink came out. Likewise with the aft deck faucet. The boat has a bitchin' huge bilge heater that the surveyor told me works but I left the battery solenoids on just in case the bilge heater ran off the batteries and not shore power. Am I forgetting anything?
 
Hahahaha.. just what I like to hear, some southern frost...want some more, just write and we can send you plenty. Really, it is warmer here then where you are. You should not worry too much about your boat, I think it will do just fine. In April 08, we slept on the boat and it was around 15 F, I slipped on the dock, but the boat was o.k. Your cold weather usualy does not last very long, were we are just a the beginning... Real nice boat you got there.

R.Blatter
 
As a fifth generation Atlantan, I have it on good authority that the South negotiated "snow days" as part of that otherwise miserable misunderstanding at Appromatox at the culmination of the War of Northern Aggression. Unfortunately, simply bitterly cold days were not included in the deal, so I am at something of a loss.
 
JediJD said:
As a fifth generation Atlantan, I have it on good authority that the South negotiated "snow days" as part of that otherwise miserable misunderstanding at Appromatox at the culmination of the War of Northern Aggression. Unfortunately, simply bitterly cold days were not included in the deal, so I am at something of a loss.
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As Captain, I recognize my obligation to the passengers and crew...thus personal antifreeze WAS available.

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The '05 and '06 Bordeaux's are a little young (according to my snotty wine friends) but they were pretty cheap when ordered by the case from Sherry Lehman's in NY and very hearty.
 
As a 5th generation Atlantan and "War Between the States" sour-graper, I would have expected your adult beverage inventory to be in clay jugs with cork stoppers!:smt043
 
JediJD said:
As Captain, I recognize my obligation to the passengers and crew...thus personal antifreeze WAS available.

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The '05 and '06 Bordeaux's are a little young (according to my snotty wine friends) but they were pretty cheap when ordered by the case from Sherry Lehman's in NY and very hearty.
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320Bob said:
As a 5th generation Atlantan and "War Between the States" sour-graper, I would have expected your adult beverage inventory to be in clay jugs with cork stoppers!:smt043
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THAT bottle is in the safe...in case of revnoo'ers.
 
320Bob said:
As a 5th generation Atlantan and "War Between the States" sour-graper, I would have expected your adult beverage inventory to be in clay jugs with cork stoppers!:smt043
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Naw - we use Mason Jars (clay jugs are stone age) for "beverages." That way you can see the dirt and the dead bugs before taking a nip!
 
Man I wish it was a nice balmy +25 degrees here today. Forecast is -27C including the windchill (-17F).:smt100
 
I lived in Gwinnette County from 94 through 99. You rarely get just plain old snow down there. It usually starts off as rain, then the the temperature drops and freezes the rain, then you get a light dusting of real snow. I never saw more than 1/2" in my 5 years there.

I loved watching the news when it happened. Every time they would put TV cameras on the side of the road at "spaghetti junction". You'd see people either come around the bend from the top of a ramp, bounce off of the barrier wall on the outside of the turn at the top and slide all the way down the ramp, or you'd see them take the exit ramp up and bounce off of the barrier wall at the top when they couldn't make the car turn.

I always wondered if the folks driving had ever watched the news during a "snow" storm.

Edit: Yeah... respect anything that comes through your front door in a mason jar. That'll be some powerful stuff there, boy.
 
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We just bought our 300 Sundancer and drove it down river to our home lake this past week. It is going to sit in a slip at the marina until our mechanic returns from vacaion on Monday. As my hubby left this morning to go check on the heating systems on the boat he was trying to remind himself why we bought a boat the last week in December instead of waiting until at least the end of March. The forecast for Northeast Alabama is for lows in the teens and twenties with highs in the low 30s for the next 8 days or so. Hopefully she will be pulled out on Monday and will be undergoing repairs during most of the cold, cold weather. Hurry up spring!
That being said, it is hard to complain.
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The sun is out in full force so the temperature does not feel like 25 degrees.
 
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I'm afraid this is my fault. EVERYTIME we book a trip to Florida in January things get ugly. Still better than what we have here in NJ today. Brrrrrr
 
12.9 Up here in the GA mountains this morning. Boys that is cold in the south.
 
JediJD said:
Oops...The boat has a bitchin' huge bilge heater that the surveyor told me works but I left the battery solenoids on just in case the bilge heater ran off the batteries and not shore power. Am I forgetting anything?
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I am curious about this bilge heater? I am guessing it is one which is designed to be used in bilge's with gasoline engines?

Though, since I have been a member of CSR, I do not recall reading much about bilge heaters used with gasoline engines.

Maybe I have overlooked these threads, if so perhaps someone here has some information or links about these bilge heaters.

Good luck :thumbsup:
 
Boatsafe, xTreme, and Wolverine make bilge heaters/pan heaters for gasoline engine boats...Google any one of the names...

I had MM install an xTreme 300W heater prior to my delivery in 2008.
 
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I think you will be ok, because a lot of your boat (engines) are IN the water so take longer to get cold and freeze. What bothers me is you only brought your freshwater down to a third and added anti...You should have emptied the tank!! The anti yopu put in was diluted with the water and I would be concerned about your swim shower, bow water ,and cockpit sink. (I think below will be ok for a few days) Ric
 
Last night we spent the night on the boat. As usual my wife wanted to do some fishing so we brought along some baitfish. I forgot to bring them aboard so this morning PETA was at my slip with a dozen counts of cruelty to animals...
 

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