u079721
Contributing Partner
My Ericson 38 is on the hard at a sailboat broker outside Detroit for the winter, being shown for sale. What is new to me is that this will be the first winter that the boat has been stored outside, or with the mast up.
I will be having the boat shrink wrapped at the end of November, but even so there will still be rain water coming down the mast. - something I never had to deal with in winter before. What, if anything, do you folks do about that? Do you add antifreeze to the bilge in the hope of keeping it from freezing? Ignore it? Live in denial?
And what about rig tension? I've heard some folks recommend that you loosen the rig, but no one here abouts seems to do that.
All advice apprciated.
I will be having the boat shrink wrapped at the end of November, but even so there will still be rain water coming down the mast. - something I never had to deal with in winter before. What, if anything, do you folks do about that? Do you add antifreeze to the bilge in the hope of keeping it from freezing? Ignore it? Live in denial?
And what about rig tension? I've heard some folks recommend that you loosen the rig, but no one here abouts seems to do that.
All advice apprciated.