and the winter time is time for winter projects but before we start doing any projects on joy
we're gonna prepare joy for the winter time so there are
a couple of things that we want to do today
40 knots look at this
and the reason why during the winter time we do not sail here in the Mediterranean
besides of course the lower temperatures is that without much warning you get very strong winds and
that leaves you very much exposed whenever you're out there if you're not in a marina
our first week in marina valencia was a tense one i cannot begin to tell you how many times i
had to adjust the lines just to make sure that the sugar scoops were not hitting the pontoon
after getting this warm welcome here it was time to dive in and complete the top items
that i had to perform right away on the boat to prepare her for the winter time
and the first thing is to remove the genoa the reason why we removed the genoa is because we
don't want the genoa to be exposed for uv light for the entire winter time we're talking about
five months we're not going to be sailing much so why not put down the genoa so and store it so
for next season it's ready to go and it will be just a matter of putting it back up
it took us about an hour to put the genoa down folded
and stored it away on the starboard hole side
although our genoa is not a very large one it was great to do this task patricia so
as she lowered the genoa halyard i would tuck it away and fold it the best i could
picking a day with very little wind also helped us complete this task much easier
even though we have a large locker to store ourselves
as you can see it here it is already getting cool since it already hosts our
genoa the CodeZero the Genniker all my kite surfing gear and our personal bags
the sun can ruin things so what we're doing is we're getting all of our lines
we're removing it from the side pockets where we keep it stored normally whenever we're sailing
we're running inside of the cockpit so it's not in direct exposure to the sunlight which
can really damage the lines so the idea here is to properly stow all of the cables away from my
uv uh race i'll put something on top of it uh just to make sure that we we don't have any re-exposure
uh to the lines here so that way uh we don't have damaged lines for next season
so it doesn't take a whole lot of time to care for those little details on the boat and that way
you have like your gear pretty much preserved for the following season so just completed uh
taking the sail down storing putting the cables away so now we'll move into the the water maker
another very important thing to do during the winter time is to winterize your water maker
if you're going to be using it on a constant basis or running like
salt water and turning it on every two three days so there's not a need for you to winterize but
as we plan to travel a little bit here in europe like a week at a time 10 days we would like to
winterize so we have ordered some solution to put inside of the water maker so we can
preserve the membranes and the water maker is ready to be used whenever the next season starts
CodeZero sail finally arrived
we're gonna do a test sail later on to see how it performs on the boat but pretty much this is the
sale that we were missing here on joy we have a jenniker that really serves us well with 140
meters square meters and this code zero is going to help us with uh angles a little bit tighter
so this is going to be very good for next season so we're excited to test it
black water tanks, we're already very careful with our black water tanks
as we try to rinse it with fresh water once a week or every every two weeks but for the winter
time we're going to put some solution inside the tanks so it can if there's any solids or
remains that are there they're like too hard to be expelled whenever we press a button uh to remove
all of the black water it gets dissolved and uh which avoids a smell or i can even avoid some
issues that we may have in the future so what we're gonna do is uh we're gonna pretty much
block all of the exits put this blue chemical inside the dissolves all of the solids that
may remain inside and we leave it there for 12 to 24 hours before we rinse with fresh water,
empty it once again, so this is like a treatment that we do, in my opinion should
be done every two to three months but sometimes whenever you're cruising you don't have time to
do that so for the winter time it is another thing that we want to do to winterize our boat
run the engine with fresh water some people do uh run the main engines with fresh water we're
not gonna do it because uh since we're gonna be very close to the to ''JOY'' here at the boat
we're gonna probably be turning the engines on every week or every 10 days just to maintain
uh it running but one thing that we're going to do is in our dingy we're going to run fresh water
on the dinghy on the engine on our 20 hp honda engine just to make sure that doesn't we don't
have salt water inside of the engine which can rotten and ruin things for next season
did you catch anything at all?
Patricia decided to put some chicken here as lure
to see if the fish is gonna bite and we have lunch
very secure so you won't lose
thats a
lot of chicken
so as I can see you're feeding the fish here, all right ! good deal !
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