Glad the boat and tulips came out alright. Here in Western North Carolina we had a late season winter storm blow through last week. There is a lake near my house that has a small boat storage area with canoes and kayaks of all flavors stored inverted and locked on to a wooden racks. The boats are stored 3 high and 2 wide on horizontal 2X4 crosspieces that are attached to a center 4x4 post. The wind was fierce during the storm and the tops of several of the racks were broken with the boats twisting and falling with one end on the ground, hull down, with the other end still locked up at the crosspiece. They stayed out like that until the next day's snow which obviously filled and weighted the boats causing the whole structure to fall. What's the point of this story? Not much, just a similar one to Doug's, although I do have a question. Say a kayak is stored with it's cockpit open and up and somehow manages to become filled with water, which then subsequently freezes...would the expanding ice be enough to break a composite boat or even a plastic boat? Where would the boat break if it did? Steve Thompson Asheville, NC _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Mar 25 2001 - 20:36:52 PST
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