Are you in St Lucia on a charter, or on your Catalina 36??? No matter which, you're lucky to be there. Happy New Year.

Yes, Happy New Year to all.

We are in Key Largo, FL enjoying warming weather after yesterday's cold temps. It got down to 50F yesterday! Brrrr. Should hit 75F today. :)

50F! Sounds like a heat wave to me. Up here in the frozen north we've been seeing -15 to -20C every night for the last week, it's supposed to get cold soon though. And we have snow! Lots of lovely white snow!

Call me crazy but I do like the changing seasons and temperatures and the pristine white covering everything when I look out our front window into the bush. Suzanne begs to differ at times. I have to admit it would be nice to be able to go for a sail right now.

Happy New Year to all from beautiful snowbound Buckhorn!

Happy New Year to all!

May next year allow more sailing time. If it had not been for Sailing over Fiscal Cliffs, I would not have gotten any sailing in in the last few months.
Lets hope for a better venue next year.

Steve

Happy New Year from Vancouver Island!
Had some wet snow first thing in the AM, but turned to rain and now that the high pressure system is establishing it will be clear and possibly as low as -2C tonight.
Brrrr; got the heaters on in the boat, as the Admiral and I are going to the Yacht club 'new years bash' and we're sleeping down on the boat tonight.

Yikes! What was I thinking...

I can not think of a more foolproof way of getting your wife closer to you than spending the night aboard in near freezing conditions aboard. Good luck getting her parka and mucklucks off. Champagne should help but, at those temps you may be better off with scotch or gin.

haha ;)
Should be fun

Not on boat, but DO have Champagne!
Happy new Year to all my C36 family! All the best in 2013.

Howard,

How did the snugglefest go. Did the anti freeze help.

I find spending the night aboard in our mild climate on San Francisco Bay that when the temp gets in the forties and below the cabin and sides of the hull radiate cold. Or more likely suck the heat away. My little electric heater can not keep up below fourty or so, turning on a fan helps distribute the heat.

I sleep in the forward berth, I have wondered if anyone has come up with a means of attaching a quilt, bubble wrap or other barrier to the overhead and hull sides to insulate the area.

Steve; Condensation is actually not too bad really.
I find that we get some condensation along the sides of the v-berth from our body heat, (I notice the blankets a bit damp where they touch) but that's about it. I keep the hatch cracked a bit to allow a small amount of air movement and the heaters are on at a low heat at night (we double up the comforters this time of year). Then I usually have the job of getting up, cranking on the heat and putting on the coffee in the morning, :eek:- then I duck back into bed until the cabin warms up!!
I suppose there probably are a few things that could be done to minimize the condensation even more...

re: condensation... I found out one thing [I]not [/I]to do. My wife and I were anchored out on a cold November night. So I decided it would be a great idea to close the door to the forward cabin, trapping our body heat so it would stay warmer. Great idea, right??? Well we woke up the next morning and everything was wet. The entire overhead was covered with gigantic drops of water, just waiting to fall.:eek: We soaked a couple big bath towels drying off the overhead. I was amazed at the amount of water vapor the human body gives off, must have been a gallon of water up there..!

Now have an Espar diesel heater. Zero condensation and the boat is nice and warm in the morning. Ahhhhhhh......:)

Originally posted by Steve Frost

I sleep in the forward berth, I have wondered if anyone has come up with a means of attaching a quilt, bubble wrap or other barrier to the overhead and hull sides to insulate the area.

I had thought of laying some plush carpeting on the walls of the V berth and screwing to the wall with the existing pin rail on my old C30, perhaps a little carpet tape. This was just to keep the shock of touching the cold fiberglass to a minimum.

Condensation was not the issue I was addressing, just the radiating cold from bare fiberglass.

Carpet on the side wall sound like a good plan and who could argue the theory presentented by someone with a name like Mr. Kozy. As for putting it on the overhead, I am not sure as condensation there could cause some mold and meldew issues if permanent. A closed cell foam of some sort may work better there.

I spend few winter nights aboard so the issue is not great for me, just currious what folks do where it actually get seriously cold.

[QUOTE=Steve Frost;16059]... just curious what folks do where it actually get seriously cold.[/QUOTE]

Well, some combination of that depicted in the photo might work.

Duane,

I have a couple of those one is a black version of the ones shown, and his father who a black lab with shorter hair, he is a better snuggler.

They do shed though.