WINTER YACHT MAINTENANCE

Winter Yacht Maintenance – Protect Your Yacht This Off-Season

Ensure your yacht stays in top condition all year round with professional winter maintenance from Hamble Point Yacht Charters. With over 25 years of experience in yacht management and care, we help owners protect their investment, avoid costly repairs and enjoy a hassle-free start to the sailing season.

Winter can be harsh on yachts, with cold temperatures, saltwater, and damp conditions increasing the risk of corrosion, equipment failure and interior damage. That's what provocative maintenance is essential - keeping your yacht in perfect working order, preserving its value and aesthetic appeal, and ensuring it is safe, clean and ready for the first sail of the year.

Our Comprehensive Winter Yacht Maintenance Services

We offer a full range of winter maintenance and valeting services, fully customisable to your yacht’s specific needs:

• Engine servicing and mechanical checks

• Rigging inspection and maintenance

• Hull cleaning, polishing, and protective treatments

• Electrical system and battery checks

• Interior deep cleaning and upholstery care

• Safety equipment and inspection

Our skilled maintenance and valeting teams bring years of experience, ensuring every yacht is meticulously cared for, ready for spring, and fully compliant with safety standards.

Trust Hamble Point Yacht Charters for Expert Care

With decades of experience and a reputation for excellence, we take the stress out of yacht ownership. Protect your investment, maintain your yacht’s performance, and sail with confidence when the season begins.

Antifouling

Prepare hull, keel and rudder for antifouling and advise should sand blasting be recommended
Remove loose paint
Sand hull, keel, and rudder
Wash down and remove dust prior to painting
Apply primer to hull, keel, and rudder
Clean any rust on the keel, apply primer
Apply two coats of your preferred antifoul (we can provide advice on options)

Undersides

Replace anodes as required
Respray sail drive leg
Service, clean and polish propeller
Clean and grease bow thruster prop
Remove, clean and refit sail drive seal
Service rope cutter
Check cutlass bearing and stern gland, replace if required
Replace rudder bearing
Check and replace, if required, rudder bearing
Check hull to keel joint
Lower anchor to ground and check chain and fixings, de-rust, paint if required and mark
Check drive system

Seacocks

Inspect and grease seacocks

Heads

Spring clean heads
Service heads
Empty holding tanks, flush through with fresh water and tank cleaner
Clean toilets through with fresh water and dismantle pump to prevent freezing
Check heads pipes for calcification and replace as necessary

Winches and Jammers

Service winches (Please specify number of winches)
Service jammers

Sails and Rigging

Remove all sails and covers and send away for cleaning and servicing
Take and collect sails and canvas to Sailmakers
Sailmakers to check and repair sails and canvas as necessary
Quote for replacement sails or canvas (please specify requirement):
Refit sails and canvas to yacht
Arrange for riggers to check and report on state of rig and running rigging
Wash sheets, jackstays, rigging lines and warps.
Whip any lines or warps that are frayed
Quote for rig replacement

Engine Service

Engineer to attend to service and winterise engine
Service gearbox or sail drive
Clean battery terminals and coat with grease
Clean and polish diesel tank if required
Ensure batteries are on charge
Top up fuel tank
Service outboard

Down Below

Remove, wash, fireproof and replace cushion covers
Apply mould and mildew where required
Wash, iron and rehang curtains
Wash pillows
Full interior deep clean
Quote for replacement interior cushion covers
Purify/clean water tanks – flush freshwater system with Puriclean
Set up heaters and dehumidifiers
Repair any dents in sole boards
Complete a full inventory check, note down any defects or broken equipment
Lift all mattresses and cushions to allow flow of air around the interior of the vessel
Tie open doors and cupboards to provide good ventilation
Clean hatch seals and apply Vaseline. Water test all hatches

Topsides

Clean and machine polish hull topsides
Remove oxidation, polish to a high gloss finish and apply Yacht Shine
Clean, renovate and brighten teak
Deep clean deck and wash sheets and jackstays
Full exterior Deep Clean (including external lockers)
Check, fix/replace locker or lazerette hinges
Provide advice on any deeper marks that may require more specialised attention
Wash all blocks, jammers, furling gear with fresh water to remove salt deposits
Inflate dinghy, wash out and dry before repacking and stowing below
Straighten an bent stanchions
Check any equipment that has a time expiry date
Renew any safety equipment that requires annual servicing
Remove all fenders and mooring warps, wash, remove any marks and apply air should they have deflated

General

Organise and supervise yacht lift and pressure wash
Organise and supervise yacht relaunch
Supply Reeds Nautical Almanac
Supply charts and folios (paper and electronic)
Create a detailed list of expiry dates for all routing maintenance and safety equipment (we can also manage this going forward)
Regularly check to ensure that vessel is secure in its cradle and / or been chocked correctly by the yard
Plug into shore power and check heaters and dehumidifiers running correctly and provide a regular check that they are still working

Pre-Season check /commissioning

Check electrics system (nav lights, interior lights etc)
Recommission engine
Check and calibrate if required – speed, depth and wind instruments
Check water system
Check safety gear
Check all skin fittings
Bleed stern gland (if deep sea seal type)
Check and adjust door catches and hinges
Check and adjust locker lids and catches
Check steering system (grease and check / tighten cables)
Check rudder bearings
Refit sails and covers
Recommission toilet systems and refill/install Purytec system