Alone in a Snowstorm | Winter Boat Life on a 30ft Sailboat

They're calling for a pretty intense week of weather ahead. It started snowing this morning and it's has since stopped and melted and now there's a low pressure system coming through along with a cold front which is bringing really strong winds and a pretty big drop in temperature along with rain and snow and it's supposed to last all week which should be interesting. So the wind is just starting to pick up now and the rain has come as well which probably means that the front is making its way over top of us but yeah it might be a bit of a rough night for sure. I'm trying to decide if I want to keep the tarp up or down. I'm keeping it up for now because we're supposed to get a bunch of rain and snow and I want to keep that out of the cabin but we're also supposed to get 90 kilometer hour winds which means that there's a lot of flapping and yeah I don't know. I'm gonna keep it up for now. If I have to I can always run out in the middle of the night and take it down if it's really that bad but so far so good keeping my fingers crossed. It's funny Jonas is actually traveling for work again for the next couple days and it often seems to match up with like big snowfalls and stuff. Obviously it's not planned and he doesn't even go away that often but the times that he does it seems like we always get these big snows so it's kind of funny but I have the boat to myself and I will just be trying to stay warm and keep the heat in and yeah. I'm also going to fill up our water even though we don't actually need to fill it up yet. Lots of times in the past the water system in the marina freezes over when we get temperatures like this and when we get snow and pipes burst and need to be repaired and so we're often left without water. That actually happened with the last snowstorm a few weeks ago and so just in case I did fill up our water even though we didn't need any. I want to be able to go a week or two without access to water just in case. Our tanks don't freeze because we heat the cabin of the boat and I think probably even the fact that we're below water line might help insulate the hull a little bit so it's never a worry about our water freezing on the boat it's more so our water source which is on the docks seems to freeze all the time and it's often out for up to a week so yeah just being prepared and trying to plan ahead. The other thing is when temperatures get into the negatives our hose can freeze up and so it just makes it way easier if I do the water ahead of time. Even though we do drain our hose after using it each time there often is some residual water in there and when temperatures drop below freezing it kind of freezes up. I remember one time last year our hose was frozen in a coil shape and we couldn't actually untwist it so it just makes it easier so we don't have to thaw it out or anything to get the water done. Well the snow is back again this morning. Not that I'm surprised. Yeah just trying to stay warm and I think all of the snow's supposed to stop by the end of this morning although it is coming down harder now so I don't know. We'll see. This is insane. This is the most snow that I've ever seen on a boat. It's wild. Look at this. The snow started last night and it just did not let up until this morning. I'm just kind of like shocked. It's crazy. Everyone's doing snow removal around here so I might try and get a shovel if there's one available but I'm just gonna start with my handy dandy sleeves. Living on the boat keeps us close to the weather. While storms remind us how fortunate we are to have shelter on Blue Moon, it is a gift when they pass. As the weather clears and systems pass over I like to visit the water and experience the peace that follows the storm.