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Unsinkable2
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Initially Posted - 12/12/2008 :  21:00:18  Show Profile  Visit Unsinkable2's Homepage
Ok, not on my Catalina, but I thought it was so tragic I ought to warn us all about it.

On a canoeing trip this summer on Idaho's Warm Lake, I came across this well-appointed and well-maintained West Wight Potter sitting on a trailer next to the lake.

I wondered why she wasn't in the water, and on walk-around, found that the port side hull had been crushed down at the water line. I assumed she was holed on some rocks. I found the owner, who told the story almost in tears.

He had rigged a sturdy boom tent for the snowy winters just as he'd always done, then went to spend the winter in his cabin. It was a particularly snowy winter, with 9 feet of snow on the ground at times. It never occurred to him to go and shovel off his boat.

In spring, this is what he found.

He said he was going to part her out, but from the look on his face, he was no where near ready to let her go. It was late August already, the summer was all but over and he hadn't moved her.

If there's a moral to this tragic tale, it's to shovel your boat?

Another pic on my blog:
http://blog.unsinkable2.com/2008/09/9-of-snow-crushed-hull.html
--Skipper of the Unsinkable2
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1977 Catalina 25 SK/SR #246 "Unsinkable 2"
1964 Lido 14 #1878 "Tomato Sloop"
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piseas
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Response Posted - 12/12/2008 :  21:09:46  Show Profile  Visit piseas's Homepage
Mike, that is tragic. I have not seen that before. Guess not, I live in SoCalif.
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Jefffriday
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Response Posted - 12/14/2008 :  13:39:25  Show Profile
Geeze, I sail at 8000 ft in the Colorado Rockies (Ruedi reservoir, Aspen Yacht Club), I have been too worried about lifeline stanchions to leave my boat up at the club through the winter due to snow loads. Our access road is not plowed and the only time we see the boats is on our January cross country ski day across the lake to the club for a bonfire and lunch. But this really makes me glad my boat is "down-valley " for the winter. I wonder if there were some pressure points on the trailer bunks that got things started....
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bear
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Response Posted - 12/14/2008 :  14:28:37  Show Profile
JMTCW. Having left my C250 on the trailer last winter at my marina in the southern Adirondacks, I suspect that ice/snow sliding off the tarp contributed to his misfortune. The sun warms the air under the tarp and melts the snow which turns to ice at night eventually sliding down the sides of the tarp/boat. I went up at least once a week last year to brush the tarp, eventually the tarp tore apart in heavy wind in the early spring. Very dangerous walking along sides of trailer/boat also, one slip and your under the boat.
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Deric
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Response Posted - 12/14/2008 :  15:39:09  Show Profile
Wow, it never ceases to surprise me of all the different types of mishaps our sailboats experience. Just when you think you have seen and heard it all, there is always another story.

I was just getting over the story of the guy who cut 5 feet off the bow of his boat so it could be trailered away by removal company. The story is in the site here.

Oh boy,

Deric
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