[Public-List] Setback with Touch Wood

[Gordon Laco]

Surprise had four feet of snow on her - Dominic I am sorry I didn't check
your boat when I checked mine.   I won't be back up there till after the
19th when the show is over.   I think your tarp is plastic?  Maybe the snow
slid off.  My tarp is canvas, which I prefer for ventilation but the snow
tends to stick to it.

My wife and I knocked what we reckon are tons of snow and ice of Surprise's
tarp.  I had her mast laid across her as a ridge pole with scissored 2x4's
at the stern and laid on the pulpit forward.  The strut under the midships
of the mast  (a piece of oak I've used for years) broke under the weight and
the mast was bent down in the middle almost to the cabin top.  I thought for
sure it was finished.

Much to my surprise as the snow load was knocked off, it returned to
straight.  There's a new strut under it again.

Lucky, lucky.   Perhaps TW will be lucky too....

Gord #426 Surprise


On 10/01/14 8:49 PM, "Dominic Amann" <dominic.amann at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ouch. So sorry to hear that. Best of luck.
>  On Jan 10, 2014 8:34 PM, "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hello gang -
>> 
>> I¹m firmly ensconced here in my booth at the Toronto International Boat
>> Show....if any of you come to the show I¹d like to see you.    All¹s well
>> and I¹m looking forward to the week but for one thing.  Earlier this week
>> we
>> had a snow storm in Midland like I¹ve never seen.  Four feet of snow fell
>> over two days.  I was looking at the thickness of the snow cap on our
>> house,
>> and then I remembered Touch Wood in her temporary shed.
>> 
>> Did I make those undressed 2x4 roof beams well enough?  Did I put enough
>> bracing into the structure?   Well the answer is no.  The shed collapsed
>> and
>> TW is beneath several tons of ice, snow, and the wreckage of the building.
>> I couldn¹t get to her to see how bad things are, but I could see that the
>> roof is completely down.  I hope that so long as she didn¹t fall over, she
>> may have survived.  However all my tools are buried in the snow.  I
>> couldn¹t
>> dig into the ruin because I had to get here to the show....and guess what.
>> There¹s going to be a thaw with heavy rain this weekend.... Then a deep
>> freeze again.  I reckon whatever shape she¹s in she¹ll have to bear till
>> March when things start warming up.
>> 
>> I am so glad her mast wasn¹t in the shed.... I can¹t believe this has
>> happened.
>> 
>> Gord #426 Surprise
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