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Added by Kevin: The DOO Gallery is live!!!

Is it possible to add a gallery for photos? We could start with photos of members boats.

Just a general question to the group. Do you keep your boat on a lift? If so, what kind do you use? If not, do you keep your boat in the water do you launch it each time you use it.

We have a Cabin in northern Michigan where we ride on weekends. Since we only spend the weekends there, on Friday, we launch the boats and jet skis, and on Sunday nite before returning to the Detroit area, we pull them out. During the weekend, we keep them tied to the seawall or to the dock, but in the water.

This was cool with the PWC's, but last year with the addition of the Speedster, it became a pain and a hassle. Now we have to make two trips to the boat launch, switch trailers on the truck, make two trips to the gas station, (Petro for our Canadian friends) etc.

This year, I would like to launch the boats in the spring, and remove them in the fall, or remove them when we go on vacations, trips etc.

My problems...
1. What to keep the boats on, because of the Zebra Mussels, slime, algae, etc.

Conventional Lift? Jet Dock? In the Water with Mooring whips?

2. Filling the boats with gas. It was cool to carry (2) 5 gallon cans down 47 stairs to the dock when we only owned the PWC's, but now with the boat and the skis, it turns back into a hassle.

My solution to this, (without my wife's approval and her thinking that I have totally lost it,) is to get a 200 gallon tank, and pipe it down the hill, underground, to a hose and a nozzle at the dock. I don't think it is legal, but hey, I think it may work and solve a problem. If the gas guy can deliver once a month, and if I lock it, and if....

Any thoughts? Am I as nuts as my wife thinks I am?

I am a bit new to posting here at the site. I have read all of the posts, and have learned quite a bit. I purchased a 99 Speedster last year in September, twin 110's. Late in the year for Michigan. Everyone was pulling their boats and docks out, and I was just getting started with the Speedster.

My questions for the group is, what type of injector oil do you run in your Speedsters? I also own a 98 Seadoo SPX, with a 110hp motor. I run either Amsoil synthetic or Sea Doo synthetic in it. The Speedster has two of basically the same motor, so my thought is to use Amsoil in it as well. The original owner that sold the boat to me, had topped off the oil prior to me picking it up, and I never did ask what he ran in it.

Any help would be appreciated.