How long is to long

[mmandley]

To let a boat sit? I never winterized (dont need to in CA).....Basically the boat has been siting in my garage for about 3 months. I put stable in the gas tank last time I took it out, but I didnt drain the block fog the engine or change the oil.......Any thoughts?

My thoughts are, Ive had numerous classic cars and all of them, I talking about the cars we all own and don't drive to often sit outside unattended for months sometimes. We don't put fuel stability on them, we don't drain fluids, we barly change the oil on them unless that magical 3k miles is there.

I've had plenty of cars sit 6 months, to a year and they fired right up, pump the gas a few times and veroooom smokes a bit for a few mInutes, doesn't have the best throttle response but it runs dam fine.

Boat, I put stabile in it only because it's fuel injected, i'll clean and regal my plugs in the spring, I'll change my oil in the spring ( tons of debate on oil changes ). Frankly not to worried about the oil sitting as I'm more worried puttng new oil n and it sitting, my dealer even said it doesn't matter it realy up to the customer.

For sure take the batteries out or leave them in but at the very least keep trickle chargers on them.

Water, absolutly drain it all. After 2 months procrastinating I drained my heater, ballast pumps, lines, trans all fairly clear no issues. Drained the block and it was nasty brown looking, typical of river water bug gross non the less.

I did remove my bags and dry them as after a summer in the boat and the ski locker never being dry, the outsides of the bags were nasty so I don't want that inside. Besides Claudia insists I drain the ballast so she can use that little bit of water in the yard lol.

Your boat will be fine as long as you stabil the fuel, fill the tank all the way, drain all the water, keep batteries charged. It no different then a car in those respects, a cast iron engine is a cast iron engine just the same.