Grant’s Outdoor Tip of the Week: Winterizing Your Boat
The recent one-two punch of wind and rain should put every Oregon boat owner on notice: winter is just around the corner and your watercraft needs to be prepared for the worst that nature can dish out.
Here are easy and inexpensive steps and products that prevent freezing damage to the family boat with an “Outdoor Tip of the Week.”
Last summer, the good times rolled for thousands of Oregon boat owners when the salmon bite in the ocean and the Columbia River turned red hot. But that was then and now, my, how times have changed! Nature has hit the region with several storms that blew in and dumped buckets of rain – it’s only a matter of time before the freezing temperatures arrive – and a critical question for boat owners – have you winterized you boat?



















