or Good Weather/Bad Weather, if you prefer . In the northeast, you are going to have to haul the boat, strip it, winterize it, tent it. Then you might decide to pull the rig, not that much extra work, agreed. Out here in sunny California, this is the list of things we do for the Winter: naught, nada, nothing. You simply continue to sail whenever you want, boat stays in the water unchanged in any way. We do not haul, strip, winterize, or tent. So pulling the rig out here, means also doing many of the things you must do otherwise, just to pull the rig. For us, that work is part of pulling the rig, not the normal yearly fire drill. Not at all uncommon for a West coast boat to never have the rig down in 20 years.