Steve Wood <[email protected]> wrote: >Having managed to do only two miles from Great Haywood to Tixall in >increasingly thick ice today
Some years ago, the owners of the keel Beecliffe rented a narrow boat for a new year's cruise (possibly in Wales). When they arrived at the boat, the canal was frozen. One owner described the cruise as being a textbook case of exponential progress, as each day they managed to navigate a distance that was greater than the sum of that achieved on all previous days. The first day, they couldn't get away from the wharfl. The next day, after a very little warming, they made about 200 m. The third day they got out of the village. etc. >I was wondering whether the sort of ice we >get on the cut is capable of holing a steel narrow boat or would the >boat get stuck fast before any damage could be done? Before anyone asks >I lost a little paint on the bow right at the waterline today but there >is no other damage! That was my experience when I once took my barge up the GU to Berko during a freeze, ice-breaking much of the way. The hull blacking along the waterline near the bow was scraped off, but the steel (nominally 6 mm thick) appeared to be unaffected. Adrian . Adrian Stott 07956-299966
