View Poll Results: Do you winterize your boat?
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20-11-2011, 06:00
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#16
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Guest
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 433
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Re: Do You Have To Winterize?
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Originally Posted by Don Lucas
Spent most of yesterday winterizing the boat!
At the moment I'm kind of hating some of you
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OK, Hate Me.
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20-11-2011, 06:26
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#17
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,226
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Re: Do You Have To Winterize?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Lucas
Spent most of yesterday winterizing the boat!
At the moment I'm kind of hating some of you
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Don:
I feel your pain or at least use to. I spent many a chilly fall evenings changing the oil and flushing the engine with antifreeze while winterizing the engine. But, that task became much easier since I went to electric propulsion. Now it's just pull the boat and winterize the fresh water system:
THE BIANKA LOG BLOG: SEASONAL SIGNALS TO WINTERIZE THE BOAT
Now it's no longer the dreaded messy task it use to be.
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Mike
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20-11-2011, 06:57
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#18
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Philippines in the winters
Boat: It’s in French Polynesia now
Posts: 11,372
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Re: Do You Have To Winterize?
Sailboats are not as much a problem as open decked power boats. Especially if left in the water.
Even on the hard the two things I keep an eye on are small pumps and drains. It doesn't take much to freeze up a small pump and brake the plastic parts, even the saltwater ones.
And drains can freeze up allowing more water to back up and freeze/expand other items. Cockpit drains are known to sink boats if hoses brake or plug up.
But if your on the boat daily and do run some heat and/or motor, it's not likely you'll have a problem until it gets below the 20º's F and stays there for more then a day.
Anything that's close to the hull/deck, above the waterline, should be monitored.
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Ocean water with a typical salinity of 35 parts per thousand freezes only at −1.8°C (28.9°F)
Read more: Sea Water, Freezing of - river, depth, oceans, temperature, important, salt, salinity, human Sea Water, Freezing of - river, depth, oceans, temperature, important, salt, salinity, human
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20-11-2011, 07:11
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#19
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CF Adviser Moderator Emeritus

Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Virginia
Boat: Island Packet 380, now sold
Posts: 8,943
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Re: Do You Have To Winterize?
Down here we have to "summerize" (lay up for the hurricane season.)
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Hud
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20-11-2011, 07:30
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#20
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,823
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Re: Do You Have To Winterize?
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Originally Posted by Hud3
Down here we have to "summerize" (lay up for the hurricane season.)
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Never thought I would ever say this, but.............I put you on my hate list
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Don't ask a bunch of unknown forum people if it is OK to do something on YOUR boat. It is your boat, do what you want!
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20-11-2011, 07:32
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#21
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Toronto
Boat: CS36Merlin, "La Belle Aurore"
Posts: 7,557
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Re: Do You Have To Winterize?
I sail all year round. But I have to both winterize and summerize.
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Rick I
Toronto in summer, Bahamas in winter.
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20-11-2011, 07:36
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#22
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Moderator Emeritus

Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Eastern Tennessee
Boat: Research vessel for a university, retired now.
Posts: 10,405
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Re: Do You Have To Winterize?
No summerizing or winterizing along the west cost of the US and we sail throughout the year. Inland in the mountains here it snows.
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David
Life begins where land ends.
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20-11-2011, 07:40
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#23
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CF Adviser Moderator Emeritus

Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Virginia
Boat: Island Packet 380, now sold
Posts: 8,943
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Re: Do You Have To Winterize?
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Originally Posted by Don Lucas
Never thought I would ever say this, but.............I put you on my hate list 
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What was that old beauty product ad...the one with Rula Lenska? "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful", she said.
Don't hate me because it's in the 80s F year-round down here, Don!
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Hud
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20-11-2011, 08:50
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#24
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Seattle
Boat: Cal 40 (sold). Still have a Hobie 20
Posts: 2,975
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Re: Do You Have To Winterize?
Can sail all year in Puget Sound. My mooring is on a lake where the water temp can get low enough that we get ice in the shallows some years. Once the lake has cooled off and if we get a below freezing snap for a week, I'll run antifreeze through the engine and drain water out of the faucets that are high in the boat since I don't have power at the dock. Doesn't happen every year.
John
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20-11-2011, 09:15
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#25
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Lorient, Brittany, France
Boat: Gib'Sea 302, 30' - Hydra
Posts: 1,245
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Re: Do You Have To Winterize?
I don't have to winterize and don't want to: I intend to continue sailing in winter, as in previous years.
Here too, the air temperature rarely goes under -5°C and the water stays above +4°C. Then, the only problem is with fresh water: it is cut on the pontoon when there is a risk of freezing. So, if I drained the tank, I can't fill it.
Alain
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20-11-2011, 09:25
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#26
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Abaco, Bahamas/ Western NC
Boat: Nothing large at the moment
Posts: 1,038
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Re: Do You Have To Winterize?
Come on gang! Everyone knows the easiest way to winterize is to sail SOUTH!
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20-11-2011, 09:26
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#27
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Moderator Emeritus

Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Chesapeake Bay
Boat: Bristol 35 Bellesa
Posts: 13,566
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Re: Do You Have To Winterize?
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A ruby port your harbor, Raise three sheets to the wind.
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20-11-2011, 09:49
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#28
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Massachusetts
Boat: Finnsailer 38
Posts: 5,823
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Re: Do You Have To Winterize?
What I want to know is why I can winterize the boat in one day, yet it takes me two weeks at a minimum to get it ready to go back in the water! I don't mind the actual work of winterization, but I find it more and more depressing every year to take the boat out of the water, especially in contrast to the many great years when I was able to sail south, which is the best winterization program.
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JJKettlewell
"Go small, Go simple, Go now"
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20-11-2011, 10:35
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#29
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Kingston / Thousand Islands, Ontario
Boat: C&C 35 Mk.II
Posts: 343
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Re: Do You Have To Winterize?
Southern Ontario (Canada) here. We don't have much of a choice; either you winterize it now or you replace it in April. Our winters are milder than they used to be, but we still get a few days of -20 C or colder and we still get a great thick sheet of ice on the lake. The car ferry has a bubbler, and the tour boats are kept in the water behind a breakwall, but just about everything else has to be hauled.
The ideal solution of course is "set course one-eight-zero, engage".....
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Matt Marsh
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20-11-2011, 10:44
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#30
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Oregon
Boat: 1974 islander 44
Posts: 198
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Yup. Everything is full of antifreeze
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