Winterizing Ballast System

[kaneboats]

I feel for you guys. I really do. I started shivering just thinking about your water.

[501]

Waaa Waaa, up in Canada (Alberta) temps the other night were air 45 water 57. I plan to keep using my boat till the end of october, so this winterizing thing is depressing. My plan was to put a small work light in the engine compartment of my XLV to keep the motor and everything a little warmer then the air temps. The compartments seem to hold the heat in well, and this is what we used to do with our old i/o. Thank god for dry suits.

[jester]

I love my dry suit. Just makes early riding go that much easer. That is a good idea about a work light. I was thinking of getting a heating pad and putting it over the engine. How hard is it to blow out the heater lines or keep them from getting too cold?

[bamaspiveys]

make sure you get the lines blown out, i left water in the lines last year and popped the water pump housing

[gammapark]

How do you blow the lines out? Once you remove the bag do you just hook up a shop vac or such??

[bradenb12]

air compressor