I wandered out for an overnight aboard Chimpanzee yesterday. There wasn't a boat to be seen in Eastern Bay today and I wonder if I'm the only nutter who overnights in the Maryland winter. The Montgomeries being as dry as they are, they seem like pretty good frostbiters. You'll want good foul weather gear and some neoprene gloves from a kayak store. Otherwise, the only worry is heavy condensation below, something I solved in the M-15 with a headliner velcro'ed-in-place . (John Tyner: the peel-and-stick velcro didn't stay stuck after a few months, which is why it's no longer there.) Anyway, it was perfectly pleasant aboard the Folkboat; 50's during the day, 15kts of wind. I had about four layers on. It was in the 20's overnight. I put a small flowerpot upside down over one of the Origo stove burners---something I read about on the internet---and that kept the cabin in the fifties, even with two hatches cracked for ventilation. A propos of nothing: there have been so many requests for Folkboat photos that I've put some snapshots of the project in a Yahoo photo album: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/clcboats/album?.dir=/ba4e&.src=ph& .tok=phWPPKCB6MJVFPoH Cheers, John