How to insulate a hull against the cold
After rebuilding our Morgan Giles 30, Aurora, Alice and I plan to sail northwards or out-of-season from our base in north-west Scotland. It’ll be cold, and from talking to others we know that sailing in the cold in an uninsulated boat is miserable.
Condensation can wreck expensive equipment. Then there’s the unhealthy mould spores to live with and the smell of damp which, when it gets in your clothes, drains your morale. Nobody can live well if their breath condenses and drips back on them day after day.
was built in about 1970 from a single skin of fibreglass. There are no extra layers in the form of a sandwich of foam or balsa wood.
