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Zihuatanejo
03-22-2005, 11:20 AM
I plan on breaking my boat in as soon as the ice is off the lakes, I live in minnesota so I have to take advantage of the warm water as much as I can. Are there any concerns about putting a boat in right after the ice is out? Will it hurt the gell coat or anything else on the boat?

james yarosz
03-22-2005, 07:24 PM
I've had my Outback in really cold water and it didn't hurt anything.Just watch out for freezing weather at night since the motor will have water in it.

sextons
03-23-2005, 01:34 PM
Hey zihuatanejo,
We live in MN too and dumped our boat in the water in mid April back in 03 right after we picked it up. The water was pretty cold and we didn't have any problems. The only thing you'll notice is in water in the 40 degree range it takes a long time for the engine to get up to full operating temp so don't freak out if the temp gauge doesn't move for a while. Also make sure if you pull it out and it could freeze that you drain everything.

Zihuatanejo
03-23-2005, 06:14 PM
Thanks for the info I paln on putting the boat in as soon as possable. Sextons where do live in minnesota?

sextons
03-23-2005, 06:47 PM
We're in Prior Lake, where are you guys?

Zihuatanejo
03-24-2005, 05:12 PM
We live in Apple Valley, and we have a cabin in walker minnesota. I plan on doing a lot of boating in the cities, I know a guy who lives on Prior and plan on taking it over there to break it in.

silverski
03-24-2005, 05:31 PM
Z- where did you get your boat from? I have an LSV that is in at Forest Lake but don't plan to pick it up until the ice is out and they can put it in the water. Did you get it there or from Nisswa? Have you picked it up already?

Zihuatanejo
03-24-2005, 11:17 PM
silverski
We bought the boat from Nissswa marine. I went to the boat show last year and saw the moomba display. I decided that if I saved for a year I could afford it, so I have been working with them for a year now. I was told that the boat was going to be in this week but it is thursday and still no word, so I expect it to be in sometime soon. the salesmen said he would e-mail me a picture. I don't plan on picking it up until the ice out. Which shouldn't be to long. I can't, wait it's our first inboard. We bought an outback sunset orange, with the indmar 325 and a wakeboard tower. I grew up on a slolom ski so I wanted a nice ski boat but my brothers and freinds wanted a wakeboard boat so I got the tower too.

sextons
03-25-2005, 09:34 AM
We'll be looking for the sunset orange Moomba on Prior Lake, we have an 03 yellow Mobius LSV so maybe we'll see you out there this spring, I'm not sure when we'll be picking the boat up yet. If you're on Prior Lake come into Candy Cove, you'll probably see our boat on a lift. There's also a white/blue Moomba in Candy Cove too.

Zihuatanejo
03-25-2005, 11:17 AM
I'll see you there silverski, maybe I'll stop when the cooler needs to be refilled.

BensonWdby
03-27-2005, 11:43 PM
Are you guys active with the Prior Lake Water Ski association? I was active with those guys about 25 years ago, used to run their family ski nigth. Learned to ski through a course by the island by the public landing.
Traffic on that lake was pretty much intolerable most of the time. I can't even imagine what it must be like now with the boon in PWC.

This 50-60 degree weather should get the ice moving out quickly.
Dave

sextons
03-28-2005, 09:11 AM
Last summer was our first on Prior Lake so we have not joined the Ski team yet but probalby will. They now ski on a private ski lake and only do one show per year for the 4th of July on the actual lake. We generally have to get out about 6:30 or so on the weekend and can wakeboard until 1 or 2 PM before it gets real busy. During the week you can usually find a calm spot if you look around enough.