How Not To Winterize Your Boat!!

[Bugsy24]

 

[Lazy Daze]

It acts as a thermal barrier

 

[dpmulvey]

Arctic Camouflage.

 

[gerryb]

Looks well-protected to me.

 

[Gofirstclass]

+1. That's a LOT of weight for that hull to be keeping afloat. I'd be on there with a small ball pein hammer tapping gently on it to remove it.

 

[quality time]

This picture's been around for awhile. Check out the sunken sailboat mast to the left of the boat.


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[Xplicitlnck]

Ok.. how?

 

[Xplicitlnck]

Now that makes sense. I was going to say looks like somebody sat there with a house

 

[Saverio]

how do you even get on the boat???
I dont see any fingers docks

 

[Pietro]

It seems to be a popular technique!!!

 

[Lazy Daze]

Interesting - at least some of those pictures are of the same area. The buildings in the background are the same. But they are of boats that are, in some cases, quite a distance away from each other. Far enough away that the spray from a fire hose wouldn't reach (look at Peitro's top left pic and bottom right pics, for example). What else could do this... multiple fires? Odd.

 

[Pietro]

It's not a spray from a fire hose, it's strong wind spraying water from the lake surface. I know this happens on the lake of Geneva in Switzerland, for example.

 

[FireDrill]

It is crazy that some boats get covered like this, while others seemingly very nearby are fine. I also don't have any idea how that happens!

 

[estoltz]

Its because they had a good bilge heater.

 

[electricaldoctor]

Looks like those crab fishing boats up on the Bering Sea!!

 

[Xplicitlnck]

I think I was told there was a fire in the marina and its spray from fire hoses

 

[kaz911]

in Denmark in '78/'79 the winter was so hard the salt water froze on impact with the boats - I worked after school on the fishing harbour and spent hours and hours knocking off ice with wood hammers (don't know the english term - Mallets?). Ice coverage was not too far from your pictures. But at that time fishing was well paid - so when it rains on the priest - so it made us a good buck or two. And then the fishermen went straight out again - and made certain we had work for the next day... They had also full time crew hammering ice off while they was out. But they probably got paid more than us kids *G*

And you quickly learned to clear the path you had to walk on FIRST...to darn cold to fall and slide in... And 2nd lessen was don't use the hammer on glass (hidden behind ice) - tempers would fly high if the captain had to sit with an open window all night. :grin:

But that sort of work is probably not legal any longer at least for 8-10 year old kids.