Sitting for 5+ years and fires right up

[alldodge]

A 2002 Crownline 6.2 MPI with 152 hours. Boat has been at the same slip for at least 10 years. Been sitting most the time and several years ago it was looking pretty bad, covered with years of tree pollen and crud. Saw the owner on it cleaning it up, and then he left.

For the next 5 or more years (don't remember how many) the boat sat in the slip again. Yesterday going to my boat, I talk to a couple who where looking it over and wanting to start it up. Said the guy was I'll and they were friends trying to get the boat back to his place. We talked a bit and I went to my boat for some testing.

About an hour later I'm back in after testing and here comes the Crownline sounding good idling back in. Said all they did was install two new bats, hit the key and it only a few seconds and fired up. They drove it over to the fuel dock and put some gas in it. The owner had pumped all the gas out prior to leaving but had enough to get to the dock.

Not positive but my Marina use to sell E10 gas years ago, and this is why I bought it from another. In any case, sitting for that long and she fires right up. They took it out for about an hour and said it never missed a lick

 

[porscheguy]

The boat sat in a slip for 5 years without being moved?

 

[Lightwin 3]

The boat sat in a slip for 5 years without being moved?

In the water????

 

[MTboatguy]

There are several boats that I have never seen move in the lake that I live close to, they have been in their slips for years.

 

[alldodge]

Yes, on both accounts, sat in the water for 5+ years and never moved. It was winterized the one time and that was it. Over these years there was a couple times we have about an inch of ice also.

Had a pitch in last night for our dock, and there was a newer Crownline using the slip for the weekend, same color. Most all of use had to stop, and look a bit closer

 

[QBhoy]

Reckon you may be right about the fuel AD. Must have been kept bone dry in the engine bay too. That would help with MPI preservation.

 

[frantically relaxing]

The boat sat in a slip for 5 years without being moved?

In the water????

Our SkipperLiner had been in the water for 6 years when we bought it in '06- it then stayed in our slip till '08, came out in '09, back in in 2010 where it stayed until 2015. And we get up to 2' of ice in the winter. Being froze in ice won't hurt your boat. It's the big chunks floating around when the thaw starts that can be bad! Fortunately our harbor was built so lake ice can't get in...

 

[Lightwin 3]

I don't where you guys are. I've seen boats that were in the water for six months and had grown enough Sasquatch hair on the bottom to the point where they would hardly move.