I keep Mary Ann out of the water from the beginning of November until sometime in March each year. She stays in a barn at a farm, nice and dry.
Before she goes into her winter storage I empty her completely and remove all spars. This enables me to do any maintenance required on the spars and rigging at my leisure in my garage at home. Also it stops the upholstery going mouldy as I store it in a spare bedroom at home.
This year I have not had to do any work at all on the boom and only light touching up of the varnish on the gaff (where it rubs against the shrouds when running).
The mast required a little more work, there was the usual slight damage to the varnish where the gaff jaws rub (even though they are leather sheathed). I simply rub down the damaged areas and locally give 2-3 coats of varnish followed by two full coats on the whole mast. There must be a lot of varnish on the mast by now, this is the ninth year I have done this.
I did the same to the bowsprit and tiller, local repair plus two full coats.
This year I have used Screwfix "No Nonsense" Trade Yacht Varnish. I am impressed at how it has gone on and dried. It will be interesting to see how durable it is.
I had planned to collect Mary Ann this weekend and commence the annual cleaning and polishing of the hull/deck. However, it looks like we are in for a blast of Arctic weather next week so I am postponing the collection for a week. Ho hum.