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TakeFive
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Initially Posted - 12/08/2013 :  17:40:29  Show Profile
We got 6-8" here at my house in the Philly area. After clearing my property, I had to go down to the boatyard and shovel off the boat (on the hard). I was afraid that if I didn't get most of the snow out of there, the rainfall that's coming this evening would soak into the snow and cause some real damage. Good thing I went - I found close to 16" in the cockpit - from the cockpit floor all the way up to the seat level. Not sure if they got more snow along the river, or if there was a "drifting" effect that filled the cockpit with more snow than the surrounding area.

I normally cover the boat, but was waiting for my replacement lifelines to arrive before throwing the tarp over everything. This storm was predicted to be less than 1", so it really snuck up on us. It was mighty scary walking on an icy, slippery cabin top with no lifelines!

Even after removing most of the snow, it's packed into every crevice around the hatches, etc., so let's hope the rain washes all that away before temperatures dip again. Repeated freeze-thaw cycles would not be good.
Rick S., Swarthmore, PA
PO of Take Five, 1998 Catalina 250WK #348 (relocated to Baltimore's Inner Harbor)
New owner of 2001 Catalina 34MkII #1535 Breakin' Away (at Rock Hall Landing Marina)
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Response Posted - 12/08/2013 :  17:43:55  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Did you get any pictures?

I can imagine being up that high with no lifelines being pretty scary. I don't like it when I do have them, and that's very rarely with added snow in the mix.
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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 12/08/2013 :  19:03:05  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by delliottg</i>
<br />Did you get any pictures?

I can imagine being up that high with no lifelines being pretty scary. I don't like it when I do have them, and that's very rarely with added snow in the mix.
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No pics, because it was after sundown by the time we got to the boat. It would have made for some pretty neat pictures if we had daylight, or had a camera with a decent flash. There was enough parking lot lighting to be able to see, but not enough for cellphone pics.

I'm also not crazy about heights. Although I rarely grab the lifelines, there's something about having them there that really helps - even if it's just to mark the boundaries of the boat. With them missing it's downright disorienting. Part of the reason I haven't tarped the boat yet is because I don't want to get up there to spread the tarp without the lifelines in place. So being up there on snow and ice was tough. I stayed on my knees for the most part, and kept a hand on the lowered mast which was supported a couple feet above the cabin top.
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Response Posted - 12/08/2013 :  19:21:04  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
Won't the tarp hang at a greater slope = less likely to hold heavy snow?

Just back from a balmy night watching the much reduced boat parade.

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Chief RA
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Response Posted - 12/09/2013 :  08:58:15  Show Profile
I got 6" at 2300' up behind Lake Oroville in the Cascade mountains. Its still so cold that 2 days later we still have 6"! Chief
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Response Posted - 12/09/2013 :  10:01:29  Show Profile
My kids in Steamboat Springs had a high of -5 and a low of -20F a few days ago--not wind-chill; actual temp. And it isn't winter yet!
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Response Posted - 12/09/2013 :  16:57:18  Show Profile
Ya! it was -8 when I went to work this morning. I think it warmed up to 19 today..... Needless to say I didn't work on the boat at all this weekend, stayed inside by the fire for most of it. We got about a foot of snow out of the ordeal.
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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 12/09/2013 :  20:33:50  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by britinusa</i>
<br />Won't the tarp hang at a greater slope = less likely to hold heavy snow?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Yes, you are right, though the stanchions poking up could chafe the tarp pretty bad. But even with the lifelines on, there has always been plenty of pitch to keep snow from piling up.

I had been waiting to put the tarp on until after the new lifelines came, because I wanted to check right after they arrived to make sure they didn't need adjustment. But they have not arrived yet (WM admitted to me today that they screwed up and didn't ship my old ones to the Annapolis store until a week had passed. ). With 3-5 inches of more snow predicted tomorrow, and high temps forecast in the 20s for the rest of the week, I headed back down to the boat tonight (again after dark) and went ahead and tarped the boat. I really didn't want the possibility of snow/ice getting into the boat and then doing freeze-thaw cycles.
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