Here's my sad story of a cockpit drain hose freezing 11 years ago, the first winter in New England after I bought my Landfall 38. I had it "professionally" shrinkwrapped and asked the wrappers not to go too before below the toe rail because I'd heard the film could stick to the Awlgrip hull paint. The day before they wrapped, I ran antifreeze through all drains in case there were low spots. So.. the crew did a lousy job with the shrinkwrap, the "hem" of which was too loose and high and let snow and freezing rain blow into the cockpit all winter. New to the boat, I didn't worry come spring, but after launching found my bilge filling and the pump running. The water the shrinkwrappers had let into the cockpit displaced my antifreeze in a low spot in the hose, which froze and burst the hose (below the waterline) - I'm just glad I discovered it on my mooring after launching and had a functioning seacock, or I'd have wondered where the boat was when I next time dinghied out to the mooring. (Worst part was it was really hard to run that thick, inflexible replacement hose down beside the engine.) The next year, I got together with some other guys, bought a heat gun, and we've shrinkwrapped our own boats every year since at a small fraction of the cost - and I've never had water ingress again. Lesson learned.
Tom Lochhaas C&C Landfall 38 Newburyport, MA 01950 *From:* CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com > <cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com>] *On Behalf Of *mike amirault via CnC-List > *Sent:* Monday, February 23, 2015 7:09 PM > *To:* cnc-list@cnc-list.com > *Subject:* Stus-List cockpit drains freezing > > > > NS has seen many freeze thaw cycles this winter. After a fairly > substantial rainfall this weekend, I found the bilge on my C&C 33mkii was > full to the top. This seemed like too much water to have run down the mast > so I investigated and found that one of the hoses on my cockpit drains was > frozen solid and popped the hose off the barbs of the drain. My boat is not > covered at this time(tarp was sagging too much) so there is a lot of water > in the cockpit. I'm thinking there may be a low spot in the hose causing > water to freeze there rather than draining. The drains on my C&C are > criss-crossed, i.e., port drainst to stbd, &stbd to port. Just wondering > how other owners in a freezing climate deal with this issue? > >
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