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pastmember
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Initially Posted - 02/09/2011 :  13:14:36  Show Profile
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 02/09/2011 :  13:23:51  Show Profile
Reminds me of what Alabama looked like on my drive to Pensacola.
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 02/09/2011 :  13:38:23  Show Profile
Good chance we're going to look like that tomorrow morning. We're expecting it to start snowing in about an hour and estimates are 1-3 inches by morning. Going down to 18 degrees tonight.
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Response Posted - 02/09/2011 :  14:53:35  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
We have looked like that since mid December. Be sure to go out and knock the snow off your tarp weekly or you'll pay for it in the spring.
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Response Posted - 02/09/2011 :  15:29:16  Show Profile
Around here, that blue tarp would be shredded, the ladder would be lying 50' away, and there'd be about 3/4-ton of frozen, water-logged snow on top of the boat, covered by a half inch if ice. Like a lot of the rest of the country, we've had <i><b>ENUFF!!</b></i>
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 02/09/2011 :  17:18:33  Show Profile
I've got our C22 under one of those 10x20 canopies with three poles on each side for support. The tarp is very close to needing replacement, just hoping it lasts through this snow. Several rips have been taped. It's starting to fray along the center support poles that form the peak. We're up to 1.5 inches of snow on the porch railing, and I've been out once already to shake the new snow off of the canopy. Good thing I'm not going anywhere tomorrow.
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Response Posted - 02/09/2011 :  19:06:55  Show Profile
Last Sunday I went to the boatyard and found about 300 pounds of snow on each side of my tarp. Also had about 18" on the anchor locker area of the bow (I covered it partially with my tarp). What I'm finding is that while I've bowed out the tarps using PVC pipe and lines wherever possible, the snow creates a depression and fills it completely.

The problem was not getting the snow off the tarp, however. My real challenge was getting through the waist-high snow drifts to get access to the boat in the first place.

Good news - the bilge was completely dry and there were only a few drips coming down from the portlights.
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Prospector
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Response Posted - 02/09/2011 :  19:07:18  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
1.5" - snicker...
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 02/09/2011 :  20:37:33  Show Profile
Yeah, I know, 1.5 - so what! It's nothing to you guys up north, and it used to be next to nothing here when I was school age. Problem is we've gone a long time without seeing much if any snow and people here don't know how to drive in it. And then there is the black ice under the snow! Anyway, it's driving officialdom here absolutely crazy.
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Response Posted - 02/10/2011 :  07:05:43  Show Profile  Visit DaveR's Homepage
All that snow looks damn pretty from where I'm sitting
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 02/10/2011 :  07:18:29  Show Profile
Woke up to 9 degree temp this morning, hi for today set to be 31. Rush hour traffic was still heavy after 9PM last night with people struggling to get home, accidents all over (black ice on the roads) with many cars abandoned by the road, more this morning all over town, including one jack-knifed 18-wheeler. I'm glad I don't have to be anywhere this morning. Sun is out now so we should see snow melting today, but it's going back down in the 20's tonight so whatever melts will freeze tonight and we'll have more ice on the roads tomorrow morning.

The good news is that it is supposed to be in the mid-50's and breezy this weekend, and up to 60 early next week. Excellent chance we'll be out racing Sunday afternoon!
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Prospector
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Response Posted - 02/10/2011 :  07:40:20  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
Well, its 6°F here right now - mucho colder before teh sun hit. But on Monday/Tuesday it will be balmy - all the way up to 25°F in the afternoon. I'm saving up my outdoorsy work for the warm weather.

Anyway, like Bruce, we have had some pretty big bellies in the tarp this winter. I find the snow buildup is bad, but what is worse is when the sun warms it and it starts to melt. That increse in density changes the distributed load to a more concentrated load, adn that is when the sags get worst. If I can knock down the snow before it gets that far, I am a happy guy.

Because of this, a snow followed by a problonged cold snap is actually better for the tarp in my opinion, although it is hell on about everythign else.
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Jack Schafer
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Response Posted - 02/10/2011 :  12:55:37  Show Profile
Well after 24" of snow,35 mph winds, I can't even see my boat,let alone get to it. I hope all will be well when it melts. !-15 today. I am going to Florida!!
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