deck storage and weight on a wood deck??

[Kaya]

Hi All,

I've serached around for any information here but i'm hitting nothing - any advice would be great.

All my experiance is with Steel narrowboats, but i now have a 1960's Gibbs Admerial - like this one http://www.theyachtmarket.com/boats_for_sale/78023/ but its basically a livaboard which has been glassed.

I want to store some wood on the foredecks - i use 1m3 vented potato bags (like the normal builders tonny bags). I would like to line a couple out with chicken mesh, fill with seasoned mix of split hard and soft wood, and rope canvas tarps over each bag to give a nice finish.

Will the foredeck hold these? - how would i know? - they'd stay there all year around really cycling through wood i bring from my store - i really don't want square meter of wood falling through my bedroom roof!

Thanks for any advice

btw - i posted this in the motorboat forum but it should have been in the livaboard link - sorry - new user!

 

[sarabande]

one concern would be the lack of ventilation underneath the bags, each of which is about a metre square. I suppose you could raise them on a pallet ?


The other is the change to the metacentric height. A couple of tonnes above deck level - that's like having 25 people standing on the foredeck. It will make the boat a bit wobbly.....

 

[Kaya]

Thanks for the reply

I wouldn't be setting out with these on-board, but even so it's a good point i don't know how much each bag would weigh - they would hold one ton of sand, but seasoned wood isn't sand.. i need to find out the weight of the wood - but i'm going to have to weigh and count as i can't find any avg weights on the net.

pellets would be used for venting the underneth, i think i may cut down the diamesions to 1 x .5 x .6mt anyway maybe get four weeks worth of wood in them with my onboard store too.

Cheers

 

[mandlmaunder]

The easiest way to weigh is to get a piece and measure it to get cubic centimeters or milli lumps, then weigh it accurately, this gives the density for that piece then work out what a cubic meter would weigh.

Simple, probably wouldn't want that much wood over your head on a windy night!.

You don't say why your storing that much wood over your bed! do you have a big wood burning stove on board?.

Good luck

Mark

 

[Kaya]

Thanks for the formula! i'll do it over the weekend.

Yep my stove is my only heating - last year the cabin plants froze...

I know - i think i'm going to split one bag into four small loads - or just one half a bag into two small packs.

The problem is i have a single vented garage on land to store seasoned wood, i just want enough wood onboard to last a month or so - so i don't add to my weeekly winter chores.

I don't have anywhere in the marina to store wood... yet but i may get away with a well bundled pallet. apperently wood like to run off in the depth of winter...

It'll be my first winter onboard and i have no idea what my wood usage will be - but live learn anf adapt.

I've looaked at the bags tonight and they are "BIG!"

Thanks for the advice