Larry, Good observations! Just for "fun", we did some quick calculations on the weight of the snow. Consider that every square foot of liquid water weighs 5.22 lb per inch depth. Using a roughly 8-10 to 1 ratio for snow depth to liquid water depth, that gives around 15 lbs per square foot for the roughly 24 inches of snow we got over the past weekend. Figure that into the exposed boat surface area, and you've got a lot of weight sitting on your boat!
Bryan Armentrout "Eos" 1981 C-27 Tall Rig #5000 --- In [email protected], Lawrence Pinto <pintokr...@...> wrote: > > 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) > pintokr...@... > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
