[stuartsw]

My wife and I are new to cruising the PNW, and have just purchased a Hunter 36, which we're keeping on the Sound. As former East Coast sailors, we don't know much about closing up boats for an extended period of dock time. (Back East, we haul and bawl.)
Given the winter weather here in the PNW over the past two years, it seems doubtful that we'll get sailing weather in Dec-Feb, despite our excellent cabin heating system and full cockpit enclosure.

We've read some good advice from PNWesters about HOW to button up.
Typically in the Puget Sound, WHEN do you count on doing so?

And what, in your experience, is the one thing that you wished you had done when you went to open her up again?