[Public-List] Setback with Touch Wood

[Gordon Laco]

Hello Michael - 

I'm home for the evening before heading back down to the city for the rest
of the show.  Your roof sounds quite solid.  Hopefully it stood.

I got some good news yesterday.  My very good friend Charles, who knew how
worried I have been about what the collapse did to Touch Wood, got over to
the wreck and burrowed inside.  He sent me a picture.

She's still standing on her keel with her six jack stands supporting her;
and the undressed 2x4 roof timbers which collapsed lay politely flat across
her.  Effectively, she's now holding up the roof.  She's not full of ice and
snow, she didn't get knocked over, I don't thing anything serious is broken.

I don't think there's any serious damage.  I've yet to go and see myself,
still wont be able to do that until after the 19th, but I think she's OK.

The funny thing is that I'd still consider the roof falling on her a
calamity - but for the fact that I thought it was so much worse.

Thank you Michael and the rest who sent me kind messages.

She always was a lucky boat!

Gord #426 Surprise


On 12/01/14 7:58 PM, "Michael Connolly" <crufone at comcast.net> wrote:

> Gord, 
So sorry to hear of your dilemma with Touch Wood's temporary storage
> shed. This past summer I built a shed roof on the back of my storage building
> to house the Typhoon and the Albacore. 14.5' span using 2x6's. Has a metal
> roof?and I did place support posts about half way along the span. After
> hearing of your disaster I am now wondering if my roof has failed as well.
> Guess I'll have to wait until spring to find out.? BTW the Albacore was built
> by Whitby in 1965. Arcadia near Frankfort, MI, 5' snow and minus 30 degrees F.
> 
Michael 
? 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Gordon Laco"
> <mainstay at csolve.net> 
To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all"
> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> 
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 8:34:46 PM
> 
Subject: [Public-List] Setback with Touch Wood 

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 
_______________________________________________ 
These
> businesses support your Association:
> 
http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html 
Please support them.
> 
_______________________________________________ 
Public-List mailing list
> 
Public-List at lists.alberg30.org
> 
http://lists.alberg30.org/listinfo.cgi/public-list-alberg30.org
> 

_______________________________________________
These businesses support
> your Association:
http://www.alberg30.org/store/A30supporters.html
Please
> support them.
_______________________________________________
Public-List
> mailing 
> list
Public-List at lists.alberg30.org
http://lists.alberg30.org/listinfo.cgi/pub
> lic-list-alberg30.org




 1389576194.0