Maybe throw a plastic tarp over the canvas cover during snow season? 

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From: "Dr. Mark Bodnar via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> 
To: "Mike Hoyt" <mike.h...@impgroup.com>, cnc-list@cnc-list.com 
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:42:01 AM 
Subject: Re: Stus-List cockpit drains freezing 


I've noticed the snow sticking to my canvas cover this winter. 
I'm wondering about putting some of the silicone water proofing that is used on 
tents on the cover in the spring - hoping to make it a bit more "slippery". 
Ideally it will shed snow more easily, important if I'll be keeping the boat a 
little further away from home next winter. 
Mark 
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
  - George Santayana 
On 2015-02-24 9:25 AM, Hoyt, Mike via CnC-List wrote: 





Mike 



You have just made the pain / hassle of installing and then maintaining a 
winter cover seem very much more worthwhile to me. I am constantly worrying 
about the weight of the snow on my deck at home, at my mom’s place and on roofs 
this year. Now on top of that on my boat cover. So far has only been one week 
where I had to spend hourseclearing snow off the boat cover and reinforcing the 
frame – since then has been ok. 



One interesting tidbit I learned this year is that snow sticks to the custom 
canvas covers much more readily than shrink wrap covers. Shrink wrap might be 
an option for you to try in the future for this reason .. 



Mike 

Persistence 

Frers 33 

Halifax, NS – in the midst of a “freeze” portion of freeze thaw cycle 




From: CnC-List [ mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com ] On Behalf Of mike 
amirault via CnC-List 
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 7:09 PM 
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com 
Subject: Stus-List cockpit drains freezing 





NS has seen many freeze thaw cycles this winter. After a fairly substantial 
rainfall this weekend, I found the bilge on my C&C 33mkii was full to the top. 
This seemed like too much water to have run down the mast so I investigated and 
found that one of the hoses on my cockpit drains was frozen solid and popped 
the hose off the barbs of the drain. My boat is not covered at this time(tarp 
was sagging too much) so there is a lot of water in the cockpit. I'm thinking 
there may be a low spot in the hose causing water to freeze there rather than 
draining. The drains on my C&C are criss-crossed, i.e., port drainst to stbd, 
&stbd to port. Just wondering how other owners in a freezing climate deal with 
this issue? 


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