{"id":469,"date":"2013-03-06T12:29:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T12:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2015-02-09T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T14:54:08","slug":"yacht-winter-refit-do-it-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/yacht-winter-refit-do-it-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Yacht Winter Refit &#8211; do it yourself: Anne\u2019s Refit tips &#8211; If I can do it, so can you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am just finishing the winter refit work on a Jeanneau 40 . She is from 2002 so it\u2019s important to check things carefully each winter so that there are no unpleasant hiccups in the summer sailing period. Time spent in the winter really pays dividends.<\/p>\n<p>Some of it starts when you take the boat out of the water in November. If you make a bit of effort then, it can help later on<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_470\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-470\" class=\"size-full wp-image-470\" title=\"Jeanneaau 40, one of out training yachts being taken out out the water\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Jeanneaau-40-yacht-out-the-water.jpg\" alt=\"Jeanneaau 40, one of out training yachts being taken out out the water\" width=\"650\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Jeanneaau-40-yacht-out-the-water.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Jeanneaau-40-yacht-out-the-water-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Jeanneaau-40-yacht-out-the-water-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanneaau 40, one of our training yachts being taken out out the water<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Step one<\/strong>&#8211; Take everything off the boat that can be moved.\u00a0 It is easier to do before the boat is lifted out.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take\u00a0 the\u00a0 cushions if you have a dry place to store them<\/li>\n<li>Clear out the galley of spices\/jam etc<\/li>\n<li>Take off all oilskins\/bedding<\/li>\n<li>Take off the sails and wash them yourself on the deck with a hose and soft deck brush, rehoist to dry\u00a0 or send to a sail laundry, then send to a sailmaker for service or repair<\/li>\n<li>Take off canvas work, biminis, sprayhoods, dodgers and clean it \/repair as necessary<\/li>\n<li>Take off lifejackets, open them up, remove gas bottles, soak them in fresh water overnight, hang them\u00a0 up to dry. When dry, inflate them by mouth and leave them. They should stay full for 24 hours. Check gas bottles by weighing them, check lights, check clips check for wear.\u00a0 <strong>Or <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Send to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceansafety.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ocean Safety<\/a> for official service instead. Do not fold them up again till the spring.<\/li>\n<li>Soak your oilskins in clean fresh water to remove salt and grime. Air dry<\/li>\n<li>Take off all lines\/sheets\/warps\/. If you can face it take off the reefing lines too by attaching a small mousing line to the end and pulling it through the boom. Tie it off at both ends. Then you can take the reefing lines home too.\u00a0 Do the same for the halyards in turn. But BE CAREFUL, keep the replacement lines tight or they will jump off the sheaves at the top of the mast and jam and then you have a problem. Do NOT take all of the halyards off at once. Do half and replace them, then do the other half. [Otherwise if you have a problem you have no way to get up the mast!]\u00a0 To attach the line to the halyard use a rolling hitch and riggers electrical tape. Or sew it. But do not make the join too fat or it will not bend round sheaves or get through openings in the mast.\u00a0 Take all the lines home and soak them for 24 hours in luke warm water to get salt and grit out. DO NOT USE DETERGENT. Dry them in air and store till spring. They will all last much longer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_471\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-471\" class=\"size-full wp-image-471\" title=\"Anne checking the oilskins and storing them\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Anne-checking-oilskins.jpg\" alt=\"Anne checking the oilskins and storing them\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Anne-checking-oilskins.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Anne-checking-oilskins-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Anne-checking-oilskins-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anne checking the oilskins and storing them<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am just finishing the winter refit work on a Jeanneau 40 . She is from 2002 so it\u2019s important to check things carefully each winter so that there are no unpleasant hiccups in the summer sailing period. Time spent in the winter really pays dividends. Some of it starts when you take the boat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learn-to-sail"],"views":4316,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}