Mar 042014
Byron at Bay of Islands Yacht Club, Corner Brook has just sent us this photo.
He writes: Winter in Corner Brook is extreme this year………. Lots of snow and now very cold -22 this morning. See attached photo of your baby.
Too much snow for the solar panels to be working and lots of build up on deck but she looks nice and sound.
You can see the anchor chain let out onto the ground. It’s a great way to clean the salt off the chain and allow the anchor locker to dry out. With this much cold the interior of the boat can get nice and dry. This year we added a garboard drain so water coming down the mast doesn’t build up in the bilge so she should be really nice when we get back in July.
Hi Jayne and Mike
Thanks for sending this on.
My question is…..what is a garboard drain or, to be more precise, how does it work? Maybe I should be fitting one to Arctic Whisper!
Looking forward to a little warmer weather, right now I’d take anything above zero!
Cheers
John Brenda and Lily.
Hi John
It’s snowing here again…we’ve got feet of the stuff and not looking like it’s going above 0 in the near future. Been great for cross-country skiing though…got to embrace it.
all the best to Brenda and shy Lilly. cheers J.
Here’s a link to garboard drain but Mike will likely document the process (right now just the hole is drilled but fitting not installed. You leave it open when the boat’s on the hard and the water just drains naturally. Would have been a good addition in NS.
http://www.oocities.org/earlylight160b/InstallGarboardDrain.html