Prepare your machines for winter: the wintering of watertoys
The days are getting shorter, the temperatures are getting lower… As the winter season approaches, it is essential to put in place some maintenance manipulations before storing your watertoys. Indeed, preparing your watertoys well for winter is necessary to preserve all their abilities and to be able to fully enjoy them the following summer.
Although they consume little time, energy and money when it comes to maintenance, watertoys nevertheless require special attention as the winter season approaches and storage for these few months of hibernation.
Why is it essential to prepare your machines well for winter?
Preparing your machines for the winter meets a double objective. Indeed, it is not only the ideal opportunity to carry out all the small maintenance and repair manipulations that your watertoys need, but it is also an essential step to preserve them from a wintering of a few months in anticipation of a return to the water in the best conditions.
In short, it is a crucial step to facilitate the arrival of the summer period and to be able to fully enjoy your aquatic toy when temperatures allow it. It is also the perfect opportunity to carry out a major cleaning and a repair session for your entire fleet of machines.
When should you start preparing your machines for the winter?
Winter is fast approaching and the days are getting shorter more and more intensely? It is probably time to think about taking your watertoys out of the water in order to prepare them for a few months of rest, comfortably stored away from the sometimes capricious weather conditions of winter.
It is usually during the All Saints' Day holidays, towards the end of October, that wintering points the tip of its nose. Indeed, this is the ideal time to take your watertoys out of the water, prepare them for their wintering and store them throughout the winter period that is already coming.
Of course, you can also take care to prepare your machines as early as September or when they are no longer used, in order to protect them all the more.
The preparation of water toys for the winter: the maintenance and storage of your machines
Essential to the preservation of your watertoys, the wintering of machines is, most often, quite simple to perform. On the other hand, it is essential to take into account certain steps to be carried out for the good of your machines. Find out now how to prepare and then store your watertoys for the winter.
How to maintain your watertoys in anticipation of winter?
The first step, rather obvious, is to get your watertoys out of the water. Cleaning is necessary as soon as they leave, especially if they have stayed in salt water. Indeed, this can lead to the corrosion of the mechanical components of your machines. It is therefore essential to rinse them with fresh water, taking care to remove salt water from each component it has been able to reach. To do this, you can disassemble some parts if necessary.
Then, remove all the residual water by tilting your watertoys. If your machines are equipped with a thermal engine, empty the fuel tank or add a stabilizer to the gasoline so that it does not freeze or rot during the wintering of your devices.
The batteries of electric motor watertoys will have to be disconnected and then stored dry and at room temperature. Ideally, their percentage of load should be between 30% and 80% to guarantee their sustainability.
Où est-il recommandé d’entreposer ses watertoys ?
The storage of water toys must be carried out in ideal conditions in order to avoid any damage to your machines. To do this, store them in a temperate place and in a dry place, away from any trace of moisture. Indeed, it could damage some mechanical components, in particular because of traces of rust.
Do you need a secure place that benefits from the perfect storage conditions to store your watertoys? Custom Motors provides you with the room you need to store your machines during the winter period.
Located just two minutes from the Villeneuve-Loubet Marina, our warehouse is ready to accommodate all your watertoys for safe wintering and maintenance carried out by experienced professionals.
Need advice to prepare your machines for the winter?
The preparation of water toys can be complex for novices in the field or for those who lack time for these sometimes time-consuming tasks.
To spend the winter, with peace of mind, do not hesitate to call on professionals to take care of your precious gear. Specialized in nautical machinery, our teams put all their know-how at your disposal to provide you with perfectly maintained and ready-to-use watertoys off the Côte d’Azur as soon as the beautiful summer days arrive.
Contact us now by email at contact@custommotorsfrance.com or by phone at +33 4 89 89 17 12 to entrust us with the wintering of your machines and enjoy a winter with peace of mind.
