The furnace is fixed. Yay! That was causing me a lot of angst. I found a chafed hose way out of sight that was draining into the bilge.
I had a visit with the yard folks yesterday. The more time I spend there the more I like the place.
I have option A, which is to haul Monday, winterize and shrink wrap the boat, and come back in late April and launch. The yard doesn’t operate outside that range. The boat doesn’t need to be hauled for maintenance.
Option B is getting back to what I had in mind a month ago. Keeping the boat in the water and heated through the winter. There are varying degrees of hardening vs using (home vs boat), but those are details.
My biggest concern with option B is that I want the ability to disappear for weeks at a time. But my brief chat with the Alderney Marina guy made me think that maybe that could be possible. I’ve put out a request for another discussion.
I’m really not anxious to abandon the boat for 5 months. A bit of bad weather shouldn’t force me off. That’s part of my use case requirements.
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