A blanket of snow covered boats and docks in Poulsbo.
Winter is coming here in Puget Sound. The days are shorter and cooler, and the case is still give us some - some of the most beautiful days of the year, it is to be damped time for the cold, dark to start preparing and coming months.
Here are eight tips to make winter Live on board to survive:
- Give your boat a good clean. Clean everything makes more use, and save everything you use them again in a car next year, driving a store or a friend. Rub your house until it empty all is bright, winding, wash linens. Winter with a clean pot is to start as a ride on a boat clean - it's just a better life.
- Use a dehumidifier that can meet all your needs. They come in many different sizes, but if life on board, whereby moisture would not be there when his boat in the winter was empty. We use a half - pint - unit and carry almost 24 hours a day.
- Know your neighbors. Sitting on a boat in the winter can be a little sad, and it's easy to let your mind down when it comes to trying to sleep leaks and noisy wind storms. One of the best solutions we have found the winter - is to heal Blues to spend time with other boaters. Last winter hosts would our friends a week fit a happy hour with friends on his boat sailor during his helmet 30 feet. And often we let others live aboards allow us to pass on the dock invite them to share a pot of soup for dinner. Brightened the spirit of the saddest days, and his probable.
- Choose and prepare for some boat - plans that can be done indoors. Before - need a new child? Or sew new covers for the sofa? Fill a few things to make you feel right at home time is not wasted the boat. And the summer comes, you will be glad that you should not miss days at sea in the same job.
- Get a Wonderbag. They are available on Amazon and are a good alternative to a slow cooker. simply heat the soup, stew or chili ingredients to a boil in a normal pot, place the lid and insert the Wonderbag. Then you can set the side of the road somewhere, and go about your day without the device worry about overheating or a fire in your boat as you are.
- Keep plastic container. Phase out all boats. It is a fact of life on board, and it can be found, one of the discouraging things about winter. Often there is not much to do at the moment to fix a leak, as something under the drip. Once located, where the penetration of water is, write it - his permanent repair when the weather permits.
- Invest in a good rain gear. Boots, jacket, trousers and a good hat that covers the ears are required. Chances are you have a long walk from the car to your boat, and most will be exposed to all the elements of the North Pacific - has West has to offer. When the wind blows in the face for rain, you'll be glad paper balls in their clothing waterproof encourages safe and convenient to be.
- Elevator - and enjoy a sunrise early. You are never more beautiful than in winter. You just have to trust me on this - One.
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