Status of Magic Dragon (for anyone interested) Magic Dragon is the 25' traditional wooden sailboat that sank yesterday from the snow load. I am happy to report that she is up off the bottom! ;-) The owner ed this morning and I am on my over to pickel her little 2 cylinder Westerbeke until he can decide what to do next.

that must have been some weight of snow! How on earth did the owner get her up? With a winch? Hope she's still going to be sea-worthy

She sank in her slip so the guys who work for the yard used an ice breaker and broke around her and got some slings under her, then they blocked up some big I beams on the finger piers and used come alongs to try to lift the stern a bit while they had two huge gas pumps trying to pump the water out faster than she could refill and slowly eased her back up.

any idea how long all that took? They must have been frozen to the bone by the time they got her up

I stayed for a little over 3 hours and the decks were just above the water line, so maybe another 3 or 4 hours.

How much snow have you gotten in total, BR? I got about 7" yesterday, but that's just a dusting compared to you guys!

54 inches from the two storms and then a few inches here and there. 2 more boats went down today. ;-(

Holy cow! Sounds as though some enterprising high school could make a bundle shoveling snow off boats! Yikes.

Actually it is pretty dangerous which is why the yard guys are not doing it.... one slip and you are pretty much done. We did not work for 9 days because it has been too dangerous to get on and off the boats. I have 9 hours on this pay period, can you say RAMEN? LOL I did make a Hawaiian sling and have been practicing with it, I plan on becoming Tarzan-ette.

Ah, so you're screwed if you don't and might be screwed if you do. These are not good choices! I'm thinking Paris isn't going to know what hit it, Ms. Tarzan : )

snow sucks! and be safe out there BR...