I am at Castle Harbor marina. The electricity is hooked up 12 months a year. The marina would have some very irate customers if they turned off the power! There would be some cold and angry people chasing the dock hands. I don’t have a permanent water hookup. When it is above freezing I use the dock faucet right next to my boat. When it looks like the pipe might freeze that all gets drained and turned off. Then I have to string a hose about 80 feet to the frost proof faucet for water if I need it. The live-aboards run hoses around the marina underwater on the bottom with lines attached. They pull them up to use them and then sink them again when finished. They don’t freeze on the bottom. I will usually put anti-freeze in the water tanks after Christmas, so the main use I have for water is washing the boat until spring.
Joe Della Barba Coquina C&C 35 MK I www.dellabarba.com From: Richard Bush [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2019 10:49 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Della Barba, Joe <[email protected]> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Stus-List Latest / last season sail Joe, where, on Kent Island are you berthed? Do you leave the water and electric hooked up all winter? Thanks Richard s/v Bushmark4: 1985 C&C 37 CB: Ohio River Mile 596; Richard N. Bush Law Offices 2950 Breckenridge Lane, Suite Nine Louisville, Kentucky 40220-1462 502-584-7255 -----Original Message----- From: Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Della Barba, Joe <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Wed, Nov 6, 2019 10:38 am Subject: Re: Stus-List Latest / last season sail It varies. Some years we are out pretty much every month of the year and some years either the weather is awful or the boat is taken apart for winter projects. We have done Thanksgiving cruises a few times, Christmas sails a few times, New Years Day sails every now and then. A lot hinges on how many times I feel like winterizing the engine vs. trusting the cabin heat to stay on and a lot hinges on how many projects I want to do in the off season vs. not doing them at all or taking up time when it is nicer out. We are actually more likely to get decent days in January or February vs. March and April. In Maryland we have this annoying thing I call "Instant Summer" where all of March, all of April, and some of May are cold, windy, and pouring rain. Then one day in May you go to sleep with the heat on and wake up the next day and it is going to be 90 degrees! * just remembered, one year it was cold enough for ice in the river and as soon as the ice was passable we went to Rock Hall and the marina was so amazed anyone showed up we got a free slip! One year over Thanksgiving, once again in Rock Hall, Saturday was about 45 degrees and blowing hard with rain. We bundled our infant son into the dinghy for the 200 yard ride across to Sailing Emporium to get some hot cocoa and do some shopping. When we tied up they asked where we were from and we said Kent Island. They looked at the dinghy, looked at the baby, and insisted they would put the dinghy on a trailer and tow it back to Kent Island with us in the truck. It took a second to realize they thought we came ALL THE WAY in the dinghy, not just across the fairway! Joe Della Barba Coquina C&C 35 MK I www.dellabarba.com<https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=a7f4e9b2-fb62b817-a7f4c0c5-0cc47adc5e34-5018b72848503556&q=1&e=993cec7f-750d-4180-abdc-585cedc6b0c9&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dellabarba.com%2F>
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