Chuck
Good tip.....I bought a roll of construction grade 'vapor barrier
plastic'.....quite adequate stuff for what you are suggesting......I
bought a 500 sq ft. roll for $30 at Home Depot.
And for purposes of other than covering my boat! The white plastic our
boat is wrapped in every Fall costs a lot more than $30......I wish.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 -84
Halifax, N.S.
On 2015-02-26 7:10 PM, Chuck S via CnC-List wrote:
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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