Need quick help on winterizing my new purchase.

Chris,
I live in Denver (Lake Norman), NC, and own a similar boat. I use to fill with RV Antifreeze, but now I do not do it any more. I just try to make sure I remove all of the water from the system that I can. No liquid, nothing to freeze. Fee Free to PM me if you have any questions. I travel with my job (exotic dancer) and I am dealing with elderly parents that live one hour North of me most weekends. However, I can help. I too have two kids in college and a dog in daycare so I feel your pain.   

Donald

Chris, put up some pictures of the boat when you get a chance.

Wow, I missed all the fuss been busy with other projects. Larry thanks for the defense, I had no idea I had pissed someone off.   My comment certainly pointed at my California experience and even working in Automotive and heavy truck for 35 years I had never been exposed to RV antifreeze so I leaned something on this post and admitted it by my boater in training comment with intent to acknowledge my lack of knowledge.   
C_Heath this great forum gave you quick and very good advice that you can't find or buy most anywhere.
I don't recall ever being called little man before, could have hurt my feelings. Dang

Moody Blue wrote: I know it’s been settled but a quick re-read of the comments is clear that Mark was speaking of himself. No harm.

Yes my bad 100% lol

Get off of my lawn

I don't know who was saying what about whom. I just know I'm offended. I didn't like Larry's tone.

Thank you ‘75 tique’ for your comments, well done
We should welcome all newbies with CC’s

75 Tique wrote:     8122pbrainard wrote: Mark, No, you just don't do as much winterizing in Californian as those who live in colder spots of the states. Chris, not sure whose remark you didnt care for, since I think MrMcD was referring to himself, not you and Pete was just poking him.

Larry,
I wasn't trying to "poke" at Mark at all. In Fact, I was trying to make him feel better about his boating and antifreeze knowledge since as mentioned, parts of California don't need to worry about winterizing.

That's funny

8122pbrainard wrote: Riley wrote: They say it's non toxic, but it kills my grass. Dump a gallon on your grass and see what happens. Bruce, Are you sure it's not your dog?

Good call and I noticed that. I went for the inlet hose from the lake but I could not get that hose off for anything. I was able to get the hose off just past the strainer. I believe that hose also had the 2 tranny cooler hoses running back to the tranny. The only thing that I couldn’t get was the strainer itself but I was able to flush it. I also added 2 more gallons of rv a/f this morning. We don’t have much more cold weather in the forecast I don’t think. At least as far as I can see out. Maybe 3-5 more nights of freezing temps and it should warm up. Thanks again!

Just to double check on you, how did you get the antifreeze into the engine?

In the video at about the 4:30 point he talks about sucking up the antifreeze and has a hose hooked directly to the water pump inlet but.........he talks about hooking the hose in the back by the strainer or transmission cooler inlet.

That's so that whatever you're sucking up goes through the strainer, transmission cooler and the line from the cooler to the RWP.

Hopefully you hooked it up back there, otherwise your strainer, transmission cooler and the line to the pump didn't get antifreeze through them.

If you just hooked it to the pump, before you get to excited, if you think about the hose from the cooler being disconnected at the pump, and you laid that down in the bilge it would drain the hose and the cooler but the strainer would need to have the housing unscrewed and drained.

Why only 2 gallons?, most people do 5 gallons to get the antifreeze run through everything and coming out the exhaust with the suck up method

Why are you winterizing your grass Bruce

Boater still in training I guess.   

Mr. D. the stuff they are talking about is called RV antifreeze and is developed / marketed for freeze protection of potable water and waste systems in RVs / cabins. Its ~3 bucks a bottle at wally world and universally used to winterize marine engines. This ain't ethylene glycol.

Our winter has ended already, very strange for this time of year but I had to mow my lawn this week.   Usually don't do that till April.
I have not read the MSDS sheets but I was in Yosemete when a guy blew a radiator hose on the park highway and they had the police out there talking about him paying for an environmental clean up. They did not think it was non toxic.