picture Re: [Rhodes22-list] Off season storage costs

[Bill Effros]

Happened to me.

What also happened to me was that tarps broke loose and flogged gel coat.

If you leave your boat outside, you better keep an eye on it, or have 
someone keep an eye on it for you.

In my boat storage area, tarped boats are often damaged when soft snow 
clings to the tarp and then freezes.  After several freeze thaw cycles 
you  can develop multi-hundred pound blocks of ice, suspended 6 feet 
above your boat, held up by your deformed mast.  The weight of the ice 
can shift the center of gravity on the trailer, smashing the stern into 
the ground, and then the ice blocks into the boat. 

It ain't pretty, and it happens to several tarped boats each year.

I have done far less damage to my boat by keeping it open and visiting 
it at least once a month, and more often when I know I should.

Bill Effros

R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
> You shouldn't have much trouble from leaves, but snow and ice can  
> accumulate. I remember when I first joined the list there was a discussion about  snow 
> accumulating in a cockpit to the extent that when it started to melt it ran  
> into the cabin. This was after many freeze and thaw cycles and the entire  
> cockpit became a solid block of ice. There wasn't any damage, just a pain to get  
> all the ice out of the cockpit. It took several days using heat lamps to melt  
> the ice enough to remove it. You couldn't just go in there with a jack hammer  
> and break it up. :)
>  
> Rummy
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