On Oct 14, 5:39 am, Geoff Schultz wrote:
I've completed my Down East Circle route cruise and for the first time
since I've owned BlueJacket, I need to really winterize her. I'm quite
good at preparing her for summering over in tropical climates, but this
cold stuff...Burrr!

For all intents and purposes, I've completed the winterization, but I have
a couple of lingering questions:

1) According to the boat yard, they disconnect the cold/in and hot/out
lines to the hot water heater and hook them together. Then they simply
drain the hot water tank. I did this, but I can never get all of the water
out. That makes me concerned, so I fed some anti-freeze into the tank
which will get diluted with the remaining water. Is this OK and/or how do
others winterize their hot water heater?

2) The life raft has water in it. Is there any reason to be concerned over
this? I could just bring it home and store it in the basement.

-- Geoffwww.GeoffSchultz.org

easy i just drain the sweet water out and open the pressure relief
valves. for the rest of it i close the boat up and hang a 100 watt
light bulb. i check the boat once a week anyways so that keeps just
enough heat to keep any thing inside the hull from freezing. Prolly
helps that my boat is very well insulated.