How many of you sail throughout the winter season?

We cruise full time. Summer is nicer, but we are lucky to have a pilot house and good diesel heater so winter is no great hardship.

It is a shame more boats don’t take advantage. Winter does have its own appeal. The last boat that shared an anchorage with us was many months ago so if this thread encourages a few more, there is no danger of overcrowding :).
 
Still sailing, but more interruptions due to wrong weather. It's expensive waiting a week for fair weather, if you are in a random marina on visitors' rates, although discounts, reduced prices and generous acts, like turning a blind eye to the bowsprit, are common this time of year.
But it can be magical, LT to Harwich a week ago was freezing, but a bright sunny day with light wind, I met hundreds of curious friendly seals, (but no yachts for some odd reason :) )
 
Me! Struggling to deal with all the other boats around me, and that terrible sunset is just pants... ;)
 

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I just missed the two glorious days here this weekend, I initially thought because last weekend I had stupidly left the heating on for four days with all of the batteries ganged together and little wind to spin the generator, thereby flattening all ~600Ah of the batteries.

I went out on Thursday after using a power pack to start the motor and an hour into the trip the alternator packed up, having been asked to work for a living for a change. When removing the alternator I observed that the bilge pump had ingested some debris, stopped and melted, despite being underwater. Thus the flat batteries. It never rains...

I sail mostly in the winter, because I have the opportunity to play with the boat and it is too cold to want to work on her outsides, which I do instead in the warmer months when it is howling. A water pump rebuild and a new shaft seal are on the long list.
 
SAPurdie said:
I sail mostly in the winter, because I have the opportunity to play with the boat and it is too cold to want to work on her outsides, which I do instead in the warmer months when it is howling. A water pump rebuild and a new shaft seal are on the long list.
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I know how that list feels.....we have a plan to take ours out next winter and the list reads like a new boat :D
 
Alskade said:
We are still popping out for short sails and I wonder how many forum members sail throughout a winter season?
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Always have.
First on Enterprises in the Bristol Channel. Then cruiser racing there, smashing ice on puddles in the cockpit.
Just leisure boating now and enjoying the comforts of a mobo, but I still enjoy a sail when I get the chance. Did so about 2 weeks ago, a cheeky after work sail in the dark.
Was out on the mobo yesterday and it was glorious.
Boat costs the same to keep in the winter, it’s such a shame to miss out.
 
I have some climbing or rambling roses that are still flowering and budding, is this normal for December ?

If it's not normal then I suppose I should be out there.
 
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