Where do you keep sails

[PabloPicasso]

I've taken my sails off the boat for the winter. They're folded, rolled, bagged and hung up in the shed. Is this a good way to keep them? Is there danger of vermin damaging them, and what could reasonably be done to minimise winter storage harm?

 

[pvb]

They should be fine, but why not just leave them in the boat?

 

[PabloPicasso]

Damp aboard. Dry ashore. Dry=better?

 

[pvb]

Not damp on my boat - don't you have ventilation?

 

[VicS]

Mine are in one of the spare bedrooms.

 

[PabloPicasso]

No spare rooms and wife objects to them being kept in the living room.

 

[LP1]

In the spare room.

 

[Seajet]

Mine seem to do well in the loft, our garage has the odd mouse so that's out but they don't seem to make it to the loft; the boat has ventilation all right but I wouldn't dream of leaving sails - or soft furnishings - onboard in winter.

 

[sarabande]

in their bags, hanging from a roof rail in the shed so meeces cannot sample them.

 

[Skylark]

I always kept the white sails from my 36ft boat in the cupboard under the stairs, out of harms way. Nice and dry. The sails on my new 41 ft boat are too big so they are stacked on the bench in my garage. I'd prefer to keep them in the house but it's not worth the argument

One of my cruising chutes is on the boat in a cockpit locker, the lighter, larger one is in a shed. No logic to that, I'm afraid.

 

[PhillM]

In the caravan on the drive. Caravan is dry, boat is damp.

Now hoping that nobody nicks the caravan otherwise I'd be up the creek without, err, sails.

 

[youen]

In a spare bedroom

 

[sailorman]

No spare rooms and wife objects to them being kept in the living room.

i would sleep with them rather than a shed.
mine are in the spare bedroom & a landing cupboard.
the main is still bent on ready for a sail on Wednesday & the No 3 is rolled on the forestay

 

[maby]

On the boom and forestay - I find the boat goes faster that way

 

[pvb]

I wouldn't dream of leaving sails - or soft furnishings - onboard in winter.

I leave the berth cushions onboard too. Never a problem. As long as there's ventilation they'll be OK.

 

[Croak]

Hanging from the banister. I have come across a few people with mouse eaten sails, maybe it is the salt.

 

[AngusMcDoon]

Rolled up in a sausage and on the stairs. Only works of your stairs don't have a bend half way up. And don't have a wife.

 

[sailorman]

Rolled up in a sausage and on the stairs. Only works of your stairs don't have a bend half way up. And don't have a wife.

Otherwise you would have a YAPP Y wife

 

[VicS]

No spare rooms and wife objects to them being kept in the living room.

Not always kept at home although they are this year, along with the cushions. Sometimes cushions and sails stay on board for the winter.
my sheds are all too damp. Mice could be a problem in the garage or the sheds.

Sail makers usually store sails sent for valeting or repair until they are required. Possible solution may therefore be to get them off to the sail makers promptly and leave them there until the spring.

 

[onesea]

On the boat in a shed in the garage and the loft.

In the caravan on the drive. Caravan is dry, boat is damp.

Now hoping that nobody nicks the caravan otherwise I'd be up the creek without, err, sails.

Hmm not thought of that I will soon add in the caravan to my list

Pleasures of having a boat without roller furling and an inability to throw away old sails....