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The Beast from the East meets Storm Emma and by 'eck it's chilly outside...

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CTC Extras #31: Arctic blast March 2018

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Bob & Jane Fulton

If you are on shore power, you might consider rigging a 100W work light on the end of an extension cord and hanging it somewhere in the engine bay. North Texas used to get quite chilly in the winter (only a couple of strands of barbed wire between us and Canada) and this is all it took to keep our sailboat engine bay from freezing. See you soon !

David Johns

I am indeed on shore power and actually have an oil-filled electric radiator that I could put out there. Then again, the coolant is in a skin tank below the waterline, and the canal never freezes that deep so it's probably OK (and it has antifreeze in it). Touch wood...

David E. Dougherty

Living in a metal pipe half submerged in cold water has disadvantages. Stare into the fire and warm yourself thinking about the nights when the boat was 30 degrees while you were trying to sleep. Now you have air conditioning. And, hooray for fire.