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alippold
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Initially Posted - 09/07/2025 :  14:32:42  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have had my WB 250 for a long time and always stored for the winter outside, covered with a tarp with the mast down. I store it at the local boatyard who took the mast down and took the boat out of the water for me.

This year, due to a change in our boat yard, I am planning to store it outside with the mast up. Tarping it will be more complicated than before due to the mast and shrouds. However, I still plan to tarp it and tie the tarp down to the trailer.

I live in the upper peninsula of Michigan with very cold winters and plenty of blizzards with high winds.

I am concerned about the water ballast boat being so light and possibly getting blown over due the mast being up.

Has anyone else had this issues? Any suggestions or advice?
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 09/08/2025 :  08:11:21  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
There are too many unknown factors to be able to answer the question. If the boat will be stored on a trailer, it can be strapped to the trailer and that will probably add over 1,000 lbs of ballast with a low center of gravity. If it can be parked on the leeward side of a building or grove of trees or a high hill, where it's sheltered from the prevailing winds, that will help considerably. If you store it on a cradle or on jackstands, there are auger anchors that are used to hold down small buildings such as garden sheds and to tether dogs that you can screw into the ground and use to help hold down the boat. Using more anchors and deeper anchors will increase their combined holding power.

You can't prevent every freak storm or tornado, so insurance is your final recourse.

Storing a sailboat with the mast up makes it easy to cover. If you attach a spinnaker pole or whisker pole to the ring on the mast and attach the other end to the bow pulpit, you can put a small tarp over the bow as a tent that will shed rain and snow. You can put a second, larger tarp over the boom as a tent that will do the same.
Steve Milby J/24 "Captiva Wind"
previously C&C 35, Cal 25, C25 TR/FK, C22
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