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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can do it yourself if you know what to do. If you don’t, and you probably don’t since you posted this thread, you should probably pay the marina whatever they want.

Wrapping itself isn’t the only thing. You need pink antifreeze in all sorts of places: engine exhaust jackets, bilge and bilge pump lines, any through hull with a seacock and line attached to it, scupper drains, galley plumbing, head plumbing, potable water tank, grey water holding tank, blackwater holding tank, air conditioner drain lines…. Fuel stabilizer in tank if you have a gas engine, diesel anti-algae stuff if you have a diesel. Same for generator systems. Fogging oil in air intake plenum. Pull all batteries and store inside for winter.

If you can do all that stuff, go for it. [/quote]

Says the marina owner. OP this isn’t building a rocket, a guy with basic boat mechanic skills can do this in 30 mins. Also if you’re storing it in a garage you do not need to do any of this.  [/quote]

M’eh….OP asked about winterizing a boat - not a tender. If you can put your boat on a trailer or even fit it in a garage - you don’t have a boat. You have a toy. You have something that sits in a cradle on the aft deck of my boat, so I can crane it off and use it to get to the courtesy dock at my anchorage.

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