Just an FYI for anyone with their boat in the water anywhere from Norfolk to Boston, given all of these middle atlantic snow storms:
My Catalina 27 is located in Solomons Island MD where we had about 17 inches (some say 24 inches) of snow and ice this past weekend along with storm force winds. I finally got down this morning to shovel the snow off of and out of the boat. The snow was 4 inches over the cockpit combings. I was surprised to see that the waterline was at least 2 inches under water (or should I say under the sheet ice) and it's usually 1 inch above. It takes a lot of weight to do that! I also shoveled off a friend's 31 ft Tiara (he's in Florida!). His swim platform had been down in the water and the water was up to the cockpit floor drains. Two boats at the next dock have sunk: one a 23 foot (about) sailboat and one 25 foot Grady White, which rolled over on its side. The yard workers say they have saved about 6 other boats that were about to go down but have a bunch of others at risk because they do not have and cannot get authorization to shovel the snow and ice off of them. ...And the weather service is predicting heavy snow again tonight and tomorrow with gale warnings. Larry Pinto Hardtack Calvert Marina Solomon's Island, Maryland 27' Catalina (#3401M77H) [email protected] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
