This article is about snow, the merchant vessel. For other meanings of snow, see Snow (disambiguation).
A snow was a two-masted merchant vessel of the 16th through the 19th centuries, the largest two-masted ship of her period with a tonnage of up to around 1,000 tons, primarily a merchant ship but also used at war. She carried square sails on both masts, but had a small trysail mast (also called a snowmast) stepped immediately abaft the mainmast from which a trysail with a boom was set, with the luff of the trysail hooped to it. At times the trysail mast was replaced by a horse on the mainmast, to which the luff of the trysail was attached by rings.
Last yearÂ’s expectations for growth in 2004 were fulfilled, because the snow thrower shipment season is short and has always been sub-ject to large swings in retail inventory.
The 2004 Model Year (March 2003 through February 2004) indicated that shipments for snow throwers were 872,205 compared to 565,549 for MY 2003.
OPEI is the major international trade association representing the manufacturers and their suppliers of consumer and commercial outdoor power equipment such as lawnmowers, garden tractors, utility vehicles, trimmers, edgers, chain saws, snow throwers, tillers, leaf blowers and other related products.
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