Lake of the Ozarks Boat Damage...

Never heard a thing about it!

Thanks Carl, for that post.

We also got hit by that storm in Michigan, but nothing new for us. It doesn't surprise me that those structures failed so badly, as I was on a few of them when boat wakes moved them around.

We bought a bank repo 53' Carver Voyager last summer and picked it up at the Moorings, the hardest hit marina. A very poorly put together assembly of docks, frames and roofs.

The Mungenast Marina shot is the very dock we kept her on while reselling her.

Thanks again for that information.

Evan

Unbelievable, sorry for the boat owners but I've never seen such a poorly designed structure before, expansive flat roof with minimal support is just asking for trouble. It borders on negligence.
Let's hope they do it right next time.

Holy mackerel,
That is some extensive damage. Almost like what we get here from the hurricanes without all that white stuff. And it's cold, too.

WOW! I can't believe that only a few inches of snow did that. Would this be covered by the marina's insurance or would the boat's insurance cover it?

Amen.

One can't help notice and compare the scenario in outmywindow's locale and the devastation in the Ozarks:

One features a beefy, snow-shedding structure housing boats with high bows that appear to be ready to go offshore, get the snot beat out of them, and return safely.

Then, in the country's midsection, there appear to be scads of, well, let's not be too disparaging here, lesser boats living under boat sheds apparently designed by Moe, Larry & Co. who have never witnessed a few inches of snow in their environs.

As one wag put it, " If you're gonna be dumb, you'd better be tough."

Wow, not very much snow to do all that damage.

I've had two boats go under because of snow. 36' chris craft - the snow drifted and she healed over until water came over the side. Second was my Catalina 30 sailboat. The power failed and she froze in, then the freeze plug popped and she filled with water.

I am happy to say both boats are fine after drying out but I dont try to bubble them during the winter any more.

Few inches? I live not to far off in KC and we got 16 inches. It's not snow either like "up in michigan". We get Ice, and pretty much all ice. Comes down as hail, builds up gets down to 20 or somtimes even 30 below at night with the windchill as we have nothing to stop the wind, no natural land features so the wind will blow a constant 40mph and gust to 50-70. turns into a barrant wasteland, then in the summer we have the opposite, reach 110 and 112. I do believe in hays kansas back in the 30's it got to 128 degrees but that was in some weird times.

So goes the chicken crop

I grew up on the Lake of the Ozarks, so I didn't have to look to get the impact of what you said. Although deep snow is rare, we are situated at the bottom edge of the really cold drafts from Canada, and Little Rock is fortunate to receive 1/3 as much ice as the Ozarks because of the inverse flow from the Gulf. One day it was balmy, the next brittle cold.

But, as with the California orange crop, we really suffer worst when all of the chicken shacks tumble like dominoes. Boats can be willed to a jr. sailor, and make a nice 'summer project.' It's one way to learn the meaning of a dollar, but livestock is defensless and the concern to protect them even less.

CTDave
Wet snow or ice can be deceiving, much more weight than one would suspect.
Everyone knows that a bucket of water has some heft to it, but there seems to be a perceptual disconnect when that water is frozen.
When we were littleuns some friends of mine decided to "ice-in" (cover something with ice by pouring buckets of water on it during a cold snap) a neighbour's car on a cold night. OOPs, the weight of the ice destoyed the car.
Ice can be beautiful in the right place, take a look at the ice towers.
http://www.alaskaalpineclub.org/IceTower/05-06IceTowers1.html