Winter may come

Jakob:

A long and intense boating season is coming to an end. It has been nerve wracking taking a newly purchased boat into winter storage for the first time in a new boat club. Nervous because I'm not familiar with how it works and nervous because it's been a long time since the last time.

Cover stand

After the recording on September 18, it was time to think about the next step, how Turid II would be covered. After some consideration, I bought 60 m of rule 34×70 and started building.

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One thing that was difficult to calculate in advance was how to best protect the windshield without building it unnecessarily high.

After a few hours of sawing and screwing and a bit of improvising, the scaffolding was in place. The longitudinal ridge board was fixed to the rafters with metal angles.

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To spare the tarpaulin, I attached a piece of a cheap sleeping pad bought at Biltema to each protruding corner.

Fold pressing

Next we would cover the boat. A tarpaulin 12 m x 7 m, 240 g/m2, tailored, was purchased at Biltema. Tarpaulins are heavy and quite cumbersome to fit, so I prepared them at home on the lawn by folding them smartly.

First, the long sides were rolled in towards the center line. The front and back edges were then rolled towards the centre. The package then became easy to handle and Eva and I could eventually place it in the middle of the cover stand.

We first rolled out the package forwards and backwards and then let the sides fall down. Easy as pie.

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We tied the compression around the bottom of the boat while the middle had to be held down by cans of washer fluid. Ten ready-mixed 3l cans were used; we hung them unopened, straight as they came from the store.