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In my anticipation of purchasing my new boat - a Targa 40, I am interested to hear what other boat owners do over winter.

I haul out my 28ft boat over the winter as it has not got any heating, and is tiny inside, so winter cruising is a no go for me.

However, do people keep larger boats in the water given there is heating etc. I guess its a choice of preference so probably a stupid question! But I would be interested to see what people do..

Given my upgrade I dont want to throw money on marina costs only for the boat to be out the water!
 
No. I've also got a Targa 40 which I've always kept in commission all year round, both here in the Med and previously in the UK. The only exception was one winter in the UK when it was out of the water for refit.
 
jcwads said:
In my anticipation of purchasing my new boat - a Targa 40, I am interested to hear what other boat owners do over winter.

I haul out my 28ft boat over the winter as it has not got any heating, and is tiny inside, so winter cruising is a no go for me.

However, do people keep larger boats in the water given there is heating etc. I guess its a choice of preference so probably a stupid question! But I would be interested to see what people do..

Given my upgrade I dont want to throw money on marina costs only for the boat to be out the water!
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Assuming it's all good , I'd make use of her through the winter months, you will get some nice calm crisp days where you can do the Cowes Yarmouth run, marinas are empty too .
 
Rafiki normally stays in all year, apart from a couple of weeks for a/f and anodes. This winter she is coming out for a few months.
My previous boat (31'), came out for the winter every other year for her major service.
 
I stay in all year even when i had just 24ft boat . As been said before you get some crack winter days afloat with calm weather. just set the boat up for the conditions ahead i do like my eletric plankit that keeps the bed warm when you go to bed. Just dont do what i did once and forget to turn it off and a week later i jump in to bed and nearly hit the roof where the bed was so hot.
 
I would normally have at least 4-5 months out each year, with living a long drive from boat and having to catch up on things at home it’s time for a break and to earn some money so I can enjoy the next season comfortably
 
I stay in all year as some of the best days on the water can be found In the winter.

I come out in May when it's warm enough to get the external jobs done.
 
Flower Power normally jumps out onto the hardstanding in November when she sees the Winter storms approaching, as the marina can be exposed to some wind directions.

She normally dives back in March, when I have had time to fiddle/fix/service/antifoul (that last one is a lie: the boatyard does the antifoul).
 
jcwads said:
However, do people keep larger boats in the water given there is heating etc. I guess its a choice of preference so probably a stupid question! But I would be interested to see what people do.
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I've often used my boat till early Jan in the last years, and I usually stored her for at least 3/4 months afterwards.
But that's with a boat moored in between 38 and 39N latitude, right in the center of the Med.
I'd rather store her much earlier, in colder climates - in fact, this year that I'm near Venice, she was sheltered yesterday!
 
Leave her in... I'm planning a week or two lift just for some jobs but apart from that I be using most weekends. I'm in Hamble too and will still get many local trips planned
 
For the last few years we have pulled our 23ft boat out for 3 months each winter purely because we have been doing work at home. Prior to that and again this year we will be leaving the boat in all winter. You get some great cruising days in the winter months when most boats are tucked up in the marina.

Cruising along with the heating on, electric blanket on and the slow cooker bubbling away is great.

Bring it on :)
 
Sailyboat rather than power, but we stay in. In previous years I had a lot of refit work to do over winter, so we were either ashore, or afloat but out of commission with the interior in pieces. But since finishing all the major stuff, we've stayed in and used the boat all year round. Winter trips tend to be local day-sails or weekends, snatched at short notice when the weather looks ok. Sailing on Boxing Day with all the family was great, only from the Itchen down to the Hamble for lunch but it certainly blew the Christmas cobwebs away. I'd say heating required for overnights (of course you can manage without, but it becomes a challenge rather than a pleasure) but not for day trips - you don't pack an Eberspacher in your pocket for winter walks.

Pete
 
I'm planning to leave mine in over the winter - with heater tubes in the engine bay with thermostat switches fitted and 1 heater again with thermostat switch fitted - whilst we are away from the boat.
even if the conditions dictate that we cannot sail it is still a weekend away

jon
 
jon and michie said:
I'm planning to leave mine in over the winter - with heater tubes in the engine bay with thermostat switches fitted and 1 heater again with thermostat switch fitted - whilst we are away from the boat.
even if the conditions dictate that we cannot sail it is still a weekend away

jon
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After we had one of the thermostatic switches fail, it stuck in the off position!! We now leave out tube heaters on 24/7. They don't use a lot of power, certainly not enough to worry about.

We leave a large one in the engine bay, a smaller one in the heads and then an oil filled rad in the saloon.

Keeps the boat well above freezing all winter.
 
I've never understood taking the boat out of the water for the winter. Surely the boat is safer in the water than it is on land? After all you are sitting in a medium which is going to be around 5 degrees so it will prevent tour boat from freezing. If it was on hard standing and your marina's electrics failed when the air temp is well below freezing you could be in trouble.
Plus you can have the odd few days away in uncrowded marinas on the days when the weather is sunny and cold, and the solent deserted
 
CX54WEK said:
After we had one of the thermostatic switches fail, it stuck in the off position!! We now leave out tube heaters on 24/7. They don't use a lot of power, certainly not enough to worry about.

We leave a large one in the engine bay, a smaller one in the heads and then an oil filled rad in the saloon.

Keeps the boat well above freezing all winter.
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until the power fails... I do the same, but when out of the water I do winterise engine.. just in case.

We do lift out in November and re-launch end of Feb. I often think about leaving the boat in longer, only to get to the first week of November to be told by SWMBO we have every weekend until the new year booked with some social engagement... so I think sod it, get the boat out and its ready to work on in the new year. Get past Christmas and the new year and it tends to be the middle of January until I think about the boat. That leaves 5 or 6 available weekends from that point until 1st March which gives me half a chance of getting all the winter work done.

So once again having read through this thread and started musing that I may leave the boat in the winter I have just talked myself into the reason why I don't!
 
Mine stays in the water all year round ,it doesnt get any use from november to may,but i dont see the point in lifting it out.
 
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