Snow Protection for overwinter storage...

[Casey]

C-Brat's here's the challenge:

Suppose you were cruising a CD22 in Southeast Alaska and you decided to store the boat on its trailer over the winter and use it again the following summer.

You have a full sunbrella cover, but with all the snow it would likely collect snow and quickly tear. You want to use the factory cover, but you need some sore of "snow roof" to shed the snow, but in the dry storage lot you've rented, you cannot build a structure or shed.

Has anyone fabricated any sort of framework that would attach to either the boat or trailer that would work to shed accumulated snow?

I have some ideas, but suspect someone out there may have already tackled this and found an answer.

I would appreciate your ideas.

Casey
C-Dory Naknek
Lake Montezuma, AZ ... for now.

[Alasgun]

In our costal ports (Seward, Whittier & Valdez) folks use glue lam trusses right down the center ,supported by stilt legs made of suitable dimensional lumber and cover the entire thing with the heavy reinforced Visqueen. The secret seems to be enough angle to make it shed snow, kind of an A frame affair. A winter watchman is generally available too who will keep an eye on things. Probably bats the snow off from time to time.
Mike

[MOOSE]

The first winter we had the MOOSE, I did just what Mike describes. Now, admittedly we don't have the snow that SE Alaska does, but the method seemed to work quite well for us.
Al

[Little CUTE-C]

Little CUTE-C had resided at Lake Tahoe for the past 9 years and trailer storaged every winter prior to our purchase 2 months ago.

The owner had fabricated a simple 'A' frame system using 2x4's for the cross base, vertical supports and high, center span board.

Assembled with bolts, washers and wing nuts allowing for ease of tear down and simple storage. Since used on a yearly basis a sunbrella cover was made which held up just fine.

Ron

[Casey]

Thanks for the ideas. These are similar the ideas I was thinking about, but possibly adapting it to crossmembers bracket to the bottom of the trailer (so nothing is actually attached to the ground...just to the trailer).

In any case - Thanks!

Casey