A Close Call - Exercise Good Winter Boat Care
We had a close call with a 28-foot sport boat last night. Snow buried the vessel and its bilge pump was inoperative. About four feet of snow have hit The boat was listing to one side and had a couple feet of water in its engine compartment. Snow was removed evenly from the boat to prevent it from rolling and a pump was placed onboard to dewater the vessel. The boat's owner was able to get onboard this morning and pickup after the incident.
This is a case that further demonstrates the importance of good winter boat care, especially for vessels stored in water for the winter season.
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posted by Harbormaster at 15:41
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You know, being from the south..that is probably as close to snow as I am ever gonna get. I just never realized snow could be that heavy. Wow!
Wow, what an impressive picture that makes, though. We usually get winter cold only in february in the Netherlands. We are very northern, but the gulfstream warms our countrie's coast most of winter.
Wow, tha'ts a lot of snow. I'm surprised the boat owners didn't just store it dry for the winter.
Winter Boat Care will never apply to me (heh) but the photo and description was still quite intriguing. While I stare at that mound of snow, I am now going to go get a cool glass of water from the office kitchen to refresh me, it's quite muggy here, you know... ;-)
I'm surprised so many people seem to keep their boats in the water during winter up there. On Cape Cod, it seems like the vast majority of boaters take their boats out and either put them in storage or just leave them in their front yards (...always a really classy choice).
If a boat owner doesn't 'shovel out' his/her boat within a reasonable amount of time, is there a fine?
Can I echo the 'wow' notion of there being a thing called snow. We're in midsummer here. I wonder if snow would put out bushfirs?
The Sydney-Hobart race was a couple of weeks ago and boy, the difference seaworthiness and care make to even reaching Hobart!
There was definately alot of snow that night, thats why we had the boat shoveled at 8PM. We do not remove the vessel from the water in winter because we hunt for Black Tail Deer out on the islands of Prince William Sound in winter. All in all forty inches is alot of snow and the unexpected will happen. It sure was a pretty boat.
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Lucky for us, our boaters do a good job of shoveling their boats. It's important to remind people what can happen.
We had a funny incident here. Staff kept calling the owner of a sailboat and telling him that it needed to be shoveled. He said there was someone hired to do it and it would be done. After about four calls in as many days, the owner thought we were nuts. He hired a shoveler and couldn't understand us bothering him.
It turned out the guy he hired was cleaning the wrong boat! Everything is better now...
I think I'm going to go with the those above me by saying Wow. We don't get that kind of snow here. I guess that's a good thing.
Quite a mess. Tell me, was it wet, heavy snow? Or was it the mass alone that gave it the weight?
As time passes I wonder what the equivalent summer instructions would be (hey, it's hot here!)
Even in the winter here it's rare to get a light dusting of snow. A few flakes results in a special news report and man-on-the-street interviews. If we had snow like that it would be like the end of the world.
Wow! I'm in the Midwest and we (sometimes) get quite a bit of snow, but nothing like that this season! (Although we got about a foot relatively recently.)
Be safe and stay warm!
Holy snow, Batman!
We got snow here too, but not that much unfortunately.
My goodness! That's quite a bit of snow.
In GA we roll up the streets if it looks like snow. That's not really because of the white stuff, it's just that we're much more likely to get a freezing rain. As you may guess, that presents it's own set of problems.
Renee'
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You need to come thaw out here in SoCal. It was in the 80s down here today!
Wow-- that's incredible! I haven't seen that much snow in years!
Julia
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This photo reminds me of how much I love Alaska in the summer.
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