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08/03/2017
Prevention | Winter storage
Checklist - winter storage and spring awakening
Here is a practical and helpful checklist of things that should be checked during the winter to ensure your yacht is ready for the spring.
Checklist:
EXTERIOR
- Contamination/damage
- Hairline cracks and other damage
- Polishing/conservation
UNDERWATER HULL
- Presence of barnacles and algae
- Damage
- Osmosis
- Antifouling adhesion/painting
KEEL
- Exterior keel-hull joint
- Interior keel bolts
- Keel sole
- Paint adhesion/corrosion
STEERING SYSTEM
- Watertightness
- Rudder shafts and skeg bearing
- Colour coating
- Damage/lower edge
- Mechanics/ease of movement
- Wire rope hoists/play
- Quadrant
- Screws
STERN TUBE/SHAFT
- Bearing play
- Water inlet/watertightness
- Support and shaft bearing
PROPELLER
- Damage
- Joint to the shaft
- Surface/coating
- Gears
- Folding mechanism
- Screws
SAILDRIVE
- Oil check
- Saildrive shaft
- Rubber cuff
- Water inlet/filter
BOW THRUSTER
- Run-out
- Running noise
- Condition of propeller
- Propeller mechanics
SACRIFICIAL ANODES (specific for saltwater or freshwater)
- On the propeller
- On the hull
- On the shaft
- On the saildrive
- On the oar blade
DECK/FITTINGS
- Cleats and fairleads
- Fans
- Hatches and windows
- Filling valves (water/diesel)
- Deck coating/teak deck
- Storage locker/lid
- Bilge pipes
- Winches/clips
- Travellers
- Pulleys
- Handrails
- Foot rails/screws
- Rail (supports/tensioner/wire)
- Anchor (chain/line/winch/joint)
Please verify
CHAIN PLATES
- Screws
- Hull joints
- Watertightness
- Hairline cracks
RIG
- Sail
- Furling system
- Mast/mast step/masthead
- Spreader
- Moving/fixed object
- Spinnaker/gennaker pole
- Tarpaulins/cockpit tent
ENGINE
- Engine and gear oil
- Filter
- Impeller
- V-belt
- Water separator
- Fuel system
- Cooling system/dual circuit/sea circuit
- Exhaust system
- Screws
- Flange/coupling
- Oscillating elements
- Engine room ventilation
- Acoustic insulation
- Alternator/regulator
ELECTRICS/ELECTRONICS
- Battery
- Fuses
- Cabling
- Plug connections
- Circuit breaker
- Interior lighting
- Deck/navigation lighting
- Radio/navigation equipment
- Speedometer
- Sonar
- Wind gauge
- Refrigerator
- On-board heating
- Charger
GAS SYSTEM
- Cooker/oven
- Sealing
- Screws
- Ventilation of the gas cylinder box
- E-remote switch
- Pressure regulator
- Master switch
- Gas warning alarm
- Certification mark
SEACOCKS
- Firm seat
- Dissolving of zinc
- Ease of movement
- Watertightness
- Hose attachments
WATER/SANITATION
- Hoses and clamps
- Bilge pump
- Waste tank
- Water tank
- Water pipe system
SAFETY EQUIPMENT
- Fire extinguisher
- Distress flares
- Life jackets
- Life rafts