Winterizing? Not this year!
Back in Ontario, our sailing friends will either soon be hauling their boats out of the water for the season or have already done so. It’s quite a process to get your boat ready for the winter up there and I wrote a very detailed post on it close to 2 years ago.
Winter arriving means an entirely different thing for us though. Down here it signals the end of the hurricane season and as such, cruisers hiding out south of 12 degrees north latitude (or 10 degrees, depending on their insurance requirements) will be able to move on. Some, like us, will move northward again. Others, like some of our good friends, will be moving west towards the ABCs (some have already left).
Sorry West Marine… not this year!
As much as we love this place, it will be nice to resume “cruising” again. But for at least the next few weeks, we still have some quality time to enjoy Grenada. Today that includes hiking to the top of Diamond Rock, an island between here and Carriacou. We’ll be sure to take some pics!
On a related note, a couple of our blog readers passed along the info about a big accident at our home marina. Apparently there was a failure of one of the support legs on the crane that lifts boats out of the water. Not good! Sure glad no one was hurt. Read about it in the Kingston newspaper.
Here is ZTC, at that time known as Katana, being lifted out of the water by that very same crane.
I had to chuckle at your “winterizing”comments………..yesterday was in the high 20s ,today pushing 30[feels like it anyway]…..We spent the day at Hanlins point along with a ton of people and as many boats as most summer days …a lucky break for those who put off the witerizing …..ya ya I know its comming [the W word ] but for not its beautiful in southern Ontario
Happy turkey weekend
Jim
Hi Jim
I had heard that you were having some nice weather there. Enjoy it while it lasts, and Happy Thanksgiving Day to you too.
I just got back today and, on the way in to Lemoine Point, commented to Katy “I wonder how all the boats are feeling tonight?” So we slowed to look, and, “Hmm, that looks odd, WHAT THE !@#$”. Our first thought was that the crane must have been overloaded, but the boat it was hooked up to was just a little one- it looks like the one bracing leg just gave out for some reason. ( A few more photos here from this afternoon; it looks like they’ve stabilized things for now while the cause of the strut failure is investigated.)
Winterizing? Oh, right…. after running the air conditioner for half the length of the 401 this afternoon, it seems rather odd to think about changing the gear oil and fogging the cylinders. I still hold out hope that there’s time for another Big Sandy Bay run before it’s too cold to lie around in the sun….
I hope you can get out of the water again too, and I hope that CBM gets things all fixed up quickly as well.
So what happened to the windless and what was the unknown part
Starting to get cold in Winnipeg
Just starting?
The windlass is still in pieces but I am making progress. I didn’t touch it at all yesterday but I plan to play with it some more this morning.
Bet you don’t miss those Canadian winters! Glad that crane held out while lifting your boat. Our own boat was almost dropped at the boatyard … almost. Talk about scary!