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Here in NH, we received 24 inches of wet & heavy. My poor flimsy boat shelter didn't survive.

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When I brought the boat home just before winter of 07/08 I needed to get something over her quickly, snow could arrive any time and I wanted to be able have room to move around under the shelter. I had a bunch of PVC pipes laying around so I built a skeleton frame from the PVC, and covered it with a tarp. The boats is at my house so I figured I could keep the snow off if it.




Don't laugh! It survived the winter of 07/08 with ease, sluffing snow as it falls. It even survived a near miss with a tornado last summer.

This storm was different. I watched it all day Sunday, and nothing was happening. Even though we'd had just a few inches a snow by 10pm, I went out to the boat and gave the frame a little shake to knock off any snow that was sticking to the tarp. There wasn't much. I looked at the radar and it looked like the storm was mostly past us, not much precip left to our west so I went to bed. I woke up a few hours later at 2am , looked out the window and the shelter was down. It must have been and intense few hours.

Lucky for us, Monday was a relatively mild day with light winds so cleanup and rebuilding the shelter was more of an aggravation than any real suffering. We both lost a day skiing that we'd been looking forward to. I still have PVC laying around, and it's quick so we're building another pvc frame.

Anyone else have problems with the storm?

I went to the boat yard yesterday and saw the following after a wet heavy snow..

Jeff,

That's too bad about your shelter, although it did pretty well lasting almost two years. Glad you were able to get it rebuilt so quickly (and at least you didn't miss any powder skiing).

Maine,

Is that first photo a trimaran with the amas folded in? Or something more unimaginable?

Rachel

No troubles here, we just got a lot of rain. I also have a PVC frame on my boat, and have not had trouble with it in 3 years, but we have also not had any really heavy snowfalls. Mine also has the "roof" starting directly above the stanchions, so less ability for it to wiggle itself out of line.

The good thing about a quick and cheap shelter is that it's easy to rebuild. We were back up the next day, and did get some skiing in.

Wow, nice! Where is that?

And are those telly skis? (Erm... last time I skied the boots were leather.) (Not that I'm that old - telly boots took a while to evolve :D

R.

PS: There's something to be said for quick and cheap, when it fills the bill. I need to be able to do that more often...

It's Tuckerman's Ravine on Mt. Washington here in NH. We ski with alpine touring gear. Free heels going up, locked for going down. I still see leather boots out there occasionally.







Regarding the PVC shelter, I would have liked it to withstand the last storm, but this one was heavy enough to knock trees over, and a 40 foot limb from a maple tree in the yard. I'm still ok with it.

Main Sail,

From your pictures, safe to say that poorly supported plastic tarps don't fair well with heavy snow. Mine Included.