Pengalanty wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Bob Wood <bobdotw...@...> wrote:
>
>> 2009/12/30 Pengalanty <allan...@...>:
>>
>>
>>> I don't think there can be ANY coating to withstand the sharp edges of
>>> broken ice.
>>>
>>> The only possibility is an angled "Plough" similar in shape to the road
>>> vehicles, fitted in front of a boat to break up the ice BEFORE the bow of
>>> the boat reaches it.
>>>
>> Even this wouldn't prevent coating being removed from the side of the boat.
>>
>>
> True, very true, nor some of the blacking from the moored boats as the ice is
> "forced" into them whilst cruising past!
>
Very interestingly when a cruiser was sunk on the Bridgewater a few
years ago, by having Ice punched through its hull, the the guy attempted
to claim, both the insurance and the MSC pointed out to him that if he
choose to leave his boat in the water over winter it was his
responsibility to make sure that the winter environment did not damage
it. This includes ice being forced into the hull by other passing users,
some of whom may be able to get through quite thick ice, we can break
and have gone up to about 4" ice without actually stopping. The hard bit
is getting enough width on corners, such that you can actually turn,
when its so thick, and putting up with the noise of the breaking ice.
You can I believe have special winter cover but the conditions and
expense are extensive.
Having owned a wooden boat for yrs, ice can be deadly if you do not have
ice-plating on the sides If you look carefully at the images in the
video that Laurence posted ,of the Spey you can see the plating. In fact
Claytons plated the boats both at the loaded and unloaded waterlines.
If its not there it takes about 6mm per mile off the wood at the
waterline, so you don't have to go far to totally knacker your boat. In
fact it was not uncommon to see wooden boats with shearing let into the
sides where they had been serverly damaged by ice. Some Hampton boats
had nearly the whole lengths so repaired.
--
cheers Ian Mac
