Making a Boating Gift Basket

My daughter recently bought a boat; I’d been taking her out on my own boat since she was a little girl so I was proud to see her following in her father’s footsteps. I decided that, for Christmas, I would purchase some boat accessories and things like that for her that she would probably need for her new boat.

For instance, I picked up a few bottles of outboard oil to add to a big boating gift basket that I was going to give to her. The gift basket I put together also included some supplies that could be used for cleaning her boat, as well as a few other useful maintenance items. I think she’ll really appreciate her gift and she’ll be able to make immediate good use out of it as well.

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A Mechanic’s Opinion

I’m a mechanic; I work a lot with cars, but my specialty is actually with working on boats, which allows me to have a niche market of working on my customers’ cars and boats, letting them bring both vehicles to the same place with the mechanics they already know and trust.

Sometimes people have asked me which brands of oil they should be purchasing for their boats. Personally, I’ve always stuck with Mercury oil for the engines of boats that I work on, but I know other people that use different brands of oil and have had similar success rates. I intend to keep using Mercury oil when I’m at work, however

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Getting Back on the Water

I live in Washington State, so we get a lot of weather that’s not really great as boating weather. It definitely rains a lot during the spring and the fall and it can get quite a bit too cold or snowy during the winter. Because of this, sometimes I’ll go through fairly long periods of time before I can go boating again; usually my last trip is in October and I can’t go out again until March or April.

There were a few things I needed to do when spring was ending to get my boat prepared. I like to give it a good cleaning before I do anything else. Then I get the supplies I need to deal with its maintenance. When I was almost done, all I needed was a fresh bottle of Mercury 2 stroke oil and I’d be ready to hit the open water.

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Different Interests

My girlfriend is different from most girls. She grew up as the youngest child with five older brothers and her interests have been heavily influenced by her dad and her brothers. She’s really interested in cars and boats, for instance. She even has her own boat, which is rare for a girl in her twenties who still lives in an apartment.

Even gift-giving with her is a little strange, certainly different than what it’s been like for my previous girlfriends. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday and all she could think of was a bottle of Mercury 2 cycle oil. She uses it for her boat. It’s a very different experience just because she’s interested in such different things than anyone else I’ve dated before.

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Going to a Professional

I’ve always been wary about trusting the opinions of friends when it comes to finding the right products for things like my car or my boat. I always like to go to a professional to get the information I need. For instance, recently, I was trying to find out what kind of oil I should purchase for my boat.

I went to a boat mechanic and he was able to recommend to me the right kind of oil for my boat and he even let me know which one I’d be able to find at an affordable price. I picked up some Optimax oil and applied it to my boat so that it would run smoothly. It’s worked just fine since I did that; I haven’t had any problems.

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A Hundred Boat Trips

Since my best friend bought a boat a couple years back, he’s been counting the amount of times he’s been able to get it out on the water. Considering he works full-time, he typically only gets a chance to take it out on the weekends, and it’s pretty cold out here, so usually there’s only a window between the end of spring and the beginning of fall that’s appropriate for taking a boat out on the water.

When it was time to take out the boat for its hundredth time, it was a pretty big deal to us. I bought him a bottle of Evinrude XD100 oil as a gift, because he uses it to maintain his boat. When we took it out on the hundredth trip, we gathered as many of our friends as we could to celebrate and we had a really good time.

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I Love Boating

I’ve had three boats in my lifetime because I love boating. I’ve always enjoyed being out on the open water and fishing or just cruising around with my family or with some of my good friends. There are a lot of lakes and rivers nearby the area that I live in, so it’s perfect for someone who loves boats.

My boat has an Evinrude E-TEC engine, so I always use Evinrude XD 50 oil when I’m performing maintenance. I’ve also used it in an older non-Evinrude engine on another boat that I recently sold and it worked fine for that as well. I care a lot about maintaining my boat because boating is very important to me.

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Boat Maintenance is Important

I think that maintaining your boat is really important. I’ve got a friend who bought a boat not too long ago, but he hasn’t been great at keeping up with the maintenance. Because of this, he’s been having some problems with his boat. He also bought it used, but I’ve known other people who bought used boats and maintained it well and never had any problems.

Personally, I’ve always used Evinrude outboard oil and I’ve never had any problems with my boat whatsoever, and I’ve been using my boat for years. I think that with the proper maintenance, you’re likely to avoid any major boat issues. That being said, I also purchased a new boat rather than a used one, so that I would know for sure there’d be no pre-existing issues with it.

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Yearly Fishing Trip

My buddy and I are big fans of going fishing. Every year, during the summer, we plan a big fishing trip. Both of us have boats and we use them all the time, but we have one weekend during the summer where we find a new, interesting place to fish and we take one of our boats out there to go check it out.

It was his turn this year to be the one taking us out. We went to a lake a few hours from where I live where there were apparently some great fishing spots. It was a really fun trip. I purchased a bottle of Evinrude Johnson 2 stroke outboard oil and I told him that I’d take us out on my boat next time.

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Being Over-Prepared

I went camping with some of my friends recently. It turned out nobody but me had remembered to bring any food on our camping trip. Luckily for all of my friends, I have a tendency to be over-prepared and I brought a ton of food along, enough for us to pretty much get by for the whole trip.

I’ve always been the kind of guy who over-prepares a little bit, for any given situation. For instance, when I bought my boat, I purchased a bunch of bulk outboard motor oil so that I’d be extra prepared at all times. My friends make fun of me for it, but sometimes my over-preparedness works out for the best!

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Solving Tough Times with a Boat Trip

I’ve been having a bit of a rough month. My ex-wife and I just went through a messy divorce and the economy has resulted in me having to receive a pay cut at work, which isn’t great now that alimony is in the mix. It’s all had me a bit down in the dumps, even though I’m a fairly optimistic person generally.

Recently, I really had the straw that broke the camel’s back. My best friend got a new job in Ohio, and even though I’m happy for him, it’s no fun knowing that my friend’s moving away at a time like this. It made me feel like busting out the bulk Mercury Optimax oil I purchased a while back, fixing up my boat, and hitting the open water.

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Working for the Weekend

I really think that it’s accurate to say that I’m always ‘working for the weekend.’ I’ve got a pretty stressful job that can really take its toll on my sanity sometimes so I get really excited about every weekend. I get even more excited now that I’ve purchased a boat that I’m able to take out on the water.

After I got off work this most recent Friday, I only made a couple of stops. I stopped off for some coffee at Starbucks. Then, I picked up a bottle of Evinrude XD 100 oil for my boat on my way home. Once I got home, I hitched my boat to my truck and got ready for a great weekend.

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