"The Works" did the job nicely. My hole is now sparkly clean and ready for next summer. As I covered it up in the garage all I could think of was "Where did summer go?" 
"The Works" did the job nicely. My hole is now sparkly clean and ready for next summer. As I covered it up in the garage all I could think of was "Where did summer go?"
why did you pull her out? All my friends with powerboats are busy getting ready to pull them for the winter.. we probably have another 2 good months of boating here if you do not mind wearing a sweatshirt or a windbreaker.
If my sailboat were seaworthy, I would probably not pull her out till December.
Gets cold fast after labor day. With the challenge coming up and other things to get done, just no time to get back out and enjoy it. Rather clean and store it now instead of when its 45 degrees out. If it's too cold to swim, it's too cold to be out on the boat. (unless you're a fisherman)
In reply to mad_machine:
Under mostly ideal conditions, you don't get wet on a monohull sailboat big enough to have a cabin.
Still pulling my friends Hunter 30 in a week or two, as we've shaken enough problems out of it that it's best to pull it early and fix it in the fall and get to just drop it in the water, step the mast, and sail the thing come spring.
Depends on the boat, Kenny. Things like WestSail 32s are notoriously wet boats. They do not have enough flare to their bows to keep the spray down. My Sea Sprite 23 is the same.. generally big heavy full keeled sailboats are the wet ones
In reply to mad_machine:
Never pull out.
Gearheadotaku wrote: Gets cold fast after labor day. With the challenge coming up and other things to get done, just no time to get back out and enjoy it. Rather clean and store it now instead of when its 45 degrees out. If it's too cold to swim, it's too cold to be out on the boat. (unless you're a fisherman)
Yep
mad_machine wrote: Depends on the boat, Kenny. Things like WestSail 32s are notoriously wet boats. They do not have enough flare to their bows to keep the spray down. My Sea Sprite 23 is the same.. generally big heavy full keeled sailboats are the wet ones
Aforementioned 1974 Hunter 30 seems to only get the bow wet, and it has roller furling up there so no need to go up. Other than that it seems to be dry unless you're running a reach way hard and heel enough to put the rail in the water.
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