EP 6 Winterizing Your Sail Boat

In today’s episode, we discuss putting your boat on the hard for the Winter. If you live where it gets below freezing during the year, you need to winterize your boat. Winterizing day is always a sad day that sailors and boaters who live in colder climates face. You either sail to warmer climates or you put the boat away for the winter. This Winter, with COVID in full swing and borders closing, I will not be sailing to warmer climates. So, in this episode Mike and I discuss: The process of putting the boat away for winter. The amount of work that goes into winterizing your boat. And thirdly, and this is the silver lining in all of this - you get to go over most of the systems on the boat and check their condition. I like to perform a thorough check during the winterizing process because it gives me several months to get the parts and fix the problem before Spring. If I wait until spring to check things over, then it’s a mad rush as I have the itch to go sailing. Hope you found this episode interesting. We love to hear from our listeners, send us your questions, comments, and suggestions at sailingtheeast@gmail.com. Wishing you fair winds, and calm seas. Bela and Mike