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Originally Posted by rgano
Let me offer you a comment about wooden hull survival out of the water because I am guessing that storage for months up there in that dry weather will pull the planks apart. I had a Canadian visit my pier in a GB woodie, and he regaled me with tales of being able to drop a nickel between the strakes before relaunch every year and how many pumps it took to dewater the boat while it hung in the slings overnight.
When I brought my GB42 woodie across the desert on a truck from San Diego to Galveston in 1990, I smeared the entire underwater body of the boat with Vaseline to prevent drying of the hull during the ten-day trip, and upon relaunch, while the boat hung overnight in the slings as a precaution, the pencil line I drew at the waterline of a small puddle in the deepest part of the bilge was not even covered.
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That a lot of vaseline Rich! Costco??? Good point though, I wonder if most wooden boat owners look for in-water winter storage up north. I once bought a sailboat in Maine. Not wood, but it had been in the water year-round. In fact I think it was a live-aboard for an older woman and her dog. Must need some good bubblers in Maine.