I finally hauled last week, and removed cleaned and stored all the crap. I am having some minor work done on the engines at the moment and while they are in there I will have them winterized and shrink wrap the whole thing. I plan to keep it on the side of my house this year (see how much complaining I hear). I love having the boat just a few steps from the shop esp. in the spring.
I did enough boating and fishing this season so I am ready for the winter...come feb I will be itching for the herring to show and thinking about new gear. I have more winter projects to tackle that is would take 5 winters to complete if I worked full time on them. So I will not be board. The ski's are in the shop being tuned, reels have been sent away to be repaired and my bud just dropped off 65# of venison...winter must be close by.
I (we) have been looking around at bigger boats
as well as considering re-poweing options for the CC
. I (we) have looked at a couple of big boats in the 42-45' range (used of course). The family really wants a big boat to "go away" on. I still will keep a little CC boat to fish on. *IF* we get a big boat I will probably be a trawler type. My biggest problem is where to keep it. It is a pain in the butt getting a mooring here no less a slip. I have a couple leads though.