Did my upgrades and made my first Akimbo reservation this morning! It was QUITE chilly, mid 30s partially sunny, and although it didn't look like there was anywhere near the predicted 10kts at the docks once we got out past the Ft it picked up nicely. We went out past ft Carroll for a bit and then turned around. It ended up being really excellent conditions, except for the chill. After about 3 hrs it was getting to be possibly fairly uncomfortable. Lol. Everything went great until docking when I reverted to my bad habit of going too slow, lost too much momentum and drifted too close to the dock and had to back out at the last moment. Embarrassing. Bleh. Otherwise fun. Peanut M&Ms were an excellent treat to pass around and keep everyone going when the shivering got to be too much. Also learned to properly winterize engine. Seems not to work very well if you leave the engine running and try to swap sea cocks. Instead the method is to turn off the engine as normal, close raw water sea cock, place hose at bottom of antifreeze bottle, open that seacock, turn engine on and if it doesn't start sucking in the antifreeze immediately rev the throttle up. That seems the foolproof way. Do NOT throttle down (like I stupidly told James to do) because it will stop sucking and may get an airlock. When pink starts coming out the exhaust shut engine off immediately. Close the seacock. This should take about 1/2-3/4 bottle.