[C320-list] Winterizing

[Allan S. Field]

Jerry - Your 2 areas of biggest vulnerability probably will be your cockpit shower and an anchor washdown system if one is installed.  Any water in the A/C system likely will freeze at the outlet also but in my case several years ago, nothing cracked or broke and it thawed pretty quickly when the sun came out and the temps went up again.  Everything else is below the waterline and probably will be OK but like Chris says, no guarantees.  I went down to my boat today, turned the A/C heat up to 74 degrees (going down to 20 here tonight), took the hose out of the washdown system, and put a high-intensity shop light in the locker where the cockpit shower is.  I also drained the water hose from the dock and put that away for the winter as the marina turned off the water today. I'll go back down tomorrow to ensure all this worked...  I am thinking we still have a few weeks of sailing left mid-Bay (Herrington Harbour South)!


Allan S. Field
Sea Shadow - C387, #106

Columbia, MD



-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Burti <clburti at gmail.com>
To: C320-List <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
Sent: Fri, Nov 10, 2017 2:21 pm
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Winterizing

No one can prudently tell you it’s safe. Several of us in this region can tell you it has happened to us without incident. 

Best Regards,
Chris Burti
Commitment #867
Farmville, NC 

> On Nov 8, 2017, at 1:48 PM, Jerry's Iphone <jellyroll02 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm three hours from our boat docked in Deltaville VA and have not winterized water, head or AC yet. Temps may be down to 30 one or two nights this weekend. It has been a crazy two weeks and I really don't have a day to drive there this week. 
> 
> My question to the group is: Am I safe not winterizing this week? Water temp is still around 62 degrees. 
> 
> Thanks as usual for the wisdom shared on this site. 
> 
> Jerry
> JellyRoll   #890