Better be careful those temps don’t freeze that pink stuff you guys use to winterize your boats. Happy new year to all and thanks for all the help and advice. John
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Better be careful those temps don’t freeze that pink stuff you guys use to winterize your boats. Happy new year to all and thanks for all the help and advice. John
If this keeps up I'll be breaking out the iceboat.
Happy New Year to all. Regardless of how warm or cold.
At one time we owned a 1 man and a 2 man ice boat. If you have never experienced it, it is like sky diving and Formula 1 racing at the same time! A 1 man boat can top 90 mph, a 2 man 140 mph. The speed can be 5 times the speed of the wind. Ice boats held the land speed record for over 300 years!
I'll take 100 mph. And at 0 GPH it's even better.
Happy New Year to all. Depending on where you and your boat are located, there is good news for all. The south Florida crew can bask in the mid sixty winter weather they share year round with the Palmetto bugs (large species of cockroach for us non Floridians). Moving north to the North Carolina area, it is really cold, around 17F this morning with an ice skim on our harbor. This is cold that we have missed for several years, but if it is maintained for a period, the crop of mosquitoes and flies will be greatly reduced during the 2018 boating season. Good trade off in my opinion. Going further north is questionable for this New Orleans born boy. Lived in upstate NY for several years, even owned a couple of snowmobiles and used them in Watertown, but never adapted to the Winters. So the point is choose what makes your life the best it can be, including location, and enjoy.
Pete
It was 15 this morning in Aiken, SC. That's pretty rugged for here. Turned the water off to the horse barn last night. Around sunup, I instructed my wife to wait for my signal down the hill before opening the cut-off. As usual, she heard half the instruction. I'm kneeling down closing the drain valves on the gas instant heater when I get a blast from the open drains which, inconveniently, are elbowed right at me. I heard it coming, but my knees let me down again. Maybe tomorrow morning we can switch positions.
Here on Long Island, NY we are forecast to have a low of 2 degrees Friday and Saturday. But I will miss that I'll be in Vermont the forecast is for -20 the same days.
Stay warm!
It is a blast I can tell you. We had a very small one that my father built from plans and used a cut-down Snipe rig on it. Since you sat only about six inches off the ice it was quite an experience. But trust me, one wants to wear a helmet if one has any sense. At the time we apparently did not.
Unfortunately the boat had fallen into disrepair since it's not that common for the bay up here to freeze anymore. Pic from the last time it was intact:
http://i53.tinypic.com/wqvxmt.jpg
A lot of the parts are still around, the plans are around somewhere and I took dimensions off the pieces that were disintegrating. If I had known we were going to see this kind of cold I would have gotten busy in the workshop over the summer.