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I don't know that there is anything in the Volvo outdrive that would prevent the usual process of winterizing like you would do any other outdrive. I would do some research on line to be sure if no one responds on here. There is probably a video on You Tube.

You have to get to the right person at the DMV with all your information. Surprisingly in this situation they can be very helpful. If the trailer is under 1000 lbs in terms of weight it can be registered as homemade. If the boat is pre-title era, which i think is before 1988 or 1989 it will be a lot simpler process. VIN numbers are also very helpful.

If you are not doing anything for several years you have plenty of time to do your research, go to boat shows and ask owners at marinas or boat ramps about how they feel about their particular boat. As alluded to in the above post, every year boats with low hours come up. Now that the market has sort of returned to normal, those used boats will start to appear again.

Going to be hard to find a tandem trailer for a 19 islander. Not many out there with a GVW less than 3500 lbs which is really all that is needed at most. Seems to me that it would make more sense to become over-zealous on trailer maintenance, like switching out tires far far sooner than one normally would for your own piece of mind. Can do a lot of trailer maintenance for the cost of the switch out in terms of trailers. Just a thought. I speak from experience. I had a tire blow out on a tandem trailer as well. Scary at the time but now just a distance memory.

Depending on the year- Robalo has been a name. Like many manufacturers it has gone through ownership changes over the years. Being a 23 footer I don't think deadrise should be an issue. The boat would be 8 or 8 1/2 feet wide. On a smaller boat, a 17-18 footer deadrise would be much more of a factor. I don't know the specs of a Grady off the top of my head but they usually have quite the V and there are plenty of those around.

suzukimarine.com Several come up in the Albany area, only two or three for Kingston.

Water pump failed on a 20 Evinrude I have a decade ago, it got so hot in a short period of time that almost everything that was gasket material or plastic melted.

In the 19-20 range as far as cuddy cabins there are some Sylvan Offshores out there few and far between. Crestliner also made a small Eagle for several years, a walkaround cuddy. Open bows, Sea Nymph 195 and its Grumman twin, then products from Starcraft, Sylvan, Smokercraft, Crestliner, Lund, Alumacraft etc. As the boats get newer, asking price goes up.

As the song says, The church bells range 29 times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald. On Tuesday in Detroit those bells were alive and were rung 30 times, 29 for the deceased crew and one for Gordon Lightfoot. For almost the past 50 years Gordon Lightfoot had a relationship with those families appearing at as many events with them as possible.

Some of them used to be on line-Mercury/Mercruiser site.

Having had a transom done on this size boat in the past two years I can confirm that you would be in the 6-8 range as mentioned above. Suggest if you were interested to have it surveyed to see if there are any other big issues lurking.

You have something which is tearing at the coating, the pulley at the end of the rigger, something in the reel on the downrigger. Cable on coating is usually a long life item.

On every environmental issue that these clowns think they are cutting edge, they have no clue. And as we find out the real world limitations of electric vehicles on how they perform, how you charge them and how much they cost, the average person just can't write a check to cover it.