Winter activity

[Rum_Pirate]

How many take part in winter (except when surrounded by ice) sailing ?

 

[Thistle]

Sometimes try to sail all year; sometimes come out to do maintenance.

 

[Rum_Pirate]

Forgot to add boat taken out for Hurricane Season, although that is not applicable to winter activity, so slight edit.

 

[Laysula]

Race every Sunday, all year round.

 

[Boathook]

To sail all year round I would have to move to a different harbour for the winter. Where I'm based, the entrance channel buoys are removed from mid November to late March. They did try to leave them in once but the water is shallow (2 meters at HW) and a storm wrecked most of the buoys.

 

[Rum_Pirate]

To sail all year round I would have to move to a different harbour for the winter. Where I'm based, the entrance channel buoys are removed from mid November to late March. They did try to leave them in once but the water is shallow (2 meters at HW) and a storm wrecked most of the buoys.

What is the depth at Low Water (LW) ? ?

 

[Boathook]

What is the depth at Low Water (LW) ? ?

About half meter. There's only a 1.5m tidal range! I can get in and out at low water neaps if there isn't much swell.

 

[KompetentKrew]

Other: sail to avoid winter. ? ️

I am becoming acclimatised; reflecting on how cold it's been this week I thought yesterday to check exactly how cold - overnight lows of around 12°c.

 

[johnalison]

We have winter sailed in the past but it never seems to happen often enough to be worthwhile , however enjoyable on occasion. Nowadays, the boat stays in the water out of commission and I use it as my country escape.

 

[BobnLesley]

Enjoyed some really nice sailing during Caribbean and central Pacific winters.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

It's funny, when I was a child we just sailed dinghys or went sledging or whatever and never really thought about the weather. When we grew up we started forming opinions about things for some reason. Instead of just "doing rain" or "doing cold" we throw the towel in. I had quite a bit of sailing in November which was enjoyable . Must try harder to do some more.

 

[wombat88]

Winter activity currently confined to waiting for it to get warm enough for the epoxy to go off...

 

[Blueboatman]

Once I discovered fibreglass , winter sailing got a lot better

 

[Neeves]

I suspect that if you could differentiate in your poll then people living closer to the Equator have a longer sailing season that those who live further away. We sailed in HK 365 and we do the same here (separately Covid did rather put a dampener on everything)

Jonathan

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Once I discovered fibreglass , winter sailing got a lot better

You didn’t mean ‘once I discovered Smirnoff’?

We do our maintenance in August, when our waters are invaded by the plebian masses.

 

[Blueboatman]

You didn’t mean ‘once I discovered Smirnoff’?

We do our maintenance in August, when our waters are invaded by the plebian masses.

That comes after ? Antifouling finger prints on a dark beer glass iirc

 

[Stemar]

Other. The boat comes out for maintenance every two or three years, the rest of the time, she lives on her mooring all year round. One year I left the sails on thinking I'd do some winter sailing. Turns out I'm too much of a wimp, or maybe it was a bad winter, but I feel the cold far more than I used to, so it won't happen again now.

 

[Blueboatman]

I have had some glorious winter sails.

Though in truth the bestest were winds so light ( and sunny and warm) that in summer you might be tempted to motor !

A brisk wintry sunny row in a decent pulling dinghy on the creek or river would be as spontaneously good , without all the faffing.

 

[The Q]

I sail all year round, but my boat is not 50ft from me. I am already doing modifications to the boat, at the moment building a new rudder.
But tomorrow I will be sailing in my friends Yeoman Keel boat. As we do every weekend over the winter here in Norfolk UK.

 

[thinwater]

Any time the water is not too hard.

Just more clothes. Ski goggles below ~ 40F.