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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Fri Oct 24 2003 - 10:31:58 EDT
My thanks to all who took the time to respond to my question.
First perhaps I should clarify that we are not proposing to, for example,
over winter in Antarctica, or dodge icebergs above the Circle. My
definition of "high latitude" is the top of Ireland, Scotland,the
Shetlands, Bergen, etc.
We are most emphatically not trying to "prove anything" or anything like
that - just enjoying the scenery. Indeed, our cruising motto is "wimp out
early" as we have found this to save us from lots of heavy weather and iffy
situations.
With that said, it sounds like the north poses no real hardships. We
already anchor in deep water with the stern tied to a tree here in
Washington. We have had plenty of wind either offshore off Oregon or just
daysailing in San Francisco. And we used to sail in ice in the Chesapeake.
It sounds like the actual sailing won't be too hard.
We try to be fairly self sufficient, I guess we'll just have to make an
effort to always have 30 days of provisions on board.
I appreciate the confirmation of the importance of insulation - that will
make me buckle down and actually finish the project in hand!
I was thinking of building a "screen room" shelter under the dodger - a
sort of canvas bulkhead that would create a wet room immediately outdoors
from the companionway. (The sort of thing found in larger dimension on
lots of Hunters and Catalinas.) This might give a place to don and doff
wet gear and thus reduce the amount of rain and snow brought below decks.
(I assume that during the heart of winter we would be in a marina.
Restrict our active cruising to, say, April - Nov.)
We have a very simple boat, with minimal electronics or plumbing systems,
but even so do I need to worry about freezing a sink drain? Are Marelon
through hull fittings compatible with cold? (I could believe that they
might be even better than bronze, since their rate of shrinkage might more
closely match our fibreglass hull.) Do I need to heat the batteries or
anything? (These seem like pretty extreme cases - we have overwintered in
Puget Sound just fine. Hopefully we're not talking about temps much lower
than those we get here.)
Anyway: Thanks to all who responded - keep those ideas coming!
Chris McKesson
USA
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