not happy, just visited boat....lake has frozen around hull!

How much room do you have on the other side of the boat? Could you just move her over some till the ice thaws out and you can adjust the bubbler?
 
dwna1a said:
How much room do you have on the other side of the boat? Could you just move her over some till the ice thaws out and you can adjust the bubbler?
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I have room to move over once the trim tab ram is free. This is what I am going to do.
 
Looks as if you have rain coming in from the SW, that should help with the ice problem.
Toss a little rock salt on top of the ice, it will mix with the rain and loosen things up some
 
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I'm interested in how close to your boat the deicer is??I have a Kasco deicer hanging off my bow, when running it creates a flow from bow to stern (45ft) preventing any ice by bringing the subsurface warmer water up and around the hull.


I wonder if it would work as well for you in fresh water?


As suggested...don't break it up, at least now its nice and smooth.
You wouldn't want any sharp pointy ice gnawing on your hull.
 
There is a bubbler on under the dock starboard side, between my boat and my buddies 340DA. It is to our stern.

The other closest bubbler was on port side about 8 ft farther back. The marina crew put a bubbler directly behind my boat this morning.

I have not been down to see it but they said I am going to get more flow.
 
We even have thin ice around the docks in Chattanooga - It should melt by tomorrow as our temps are going back up to 50° - 60° for at least a few days...
 
Air O'Nautical said:
I'm interested in how close to your boat the deicer is??I have a Kasco deicer hanging off my bow, when running it creates a flow from bow to stern (45ft) preventing any ice by bringing the subsurface warmer water up and around the hull.


I wonder if it would work as well for you in fresh water?


As suggested...don't break it up, at least now its nice and smooth.
You wouldn't want any sharp pointy ice gnawing on your hull.
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Sounds like yours is more of a ducted fan kind of setup for lack of a better descritption... Propeller in a housing. Those are designed to move the warmer water up to the surface, keeping the cool layer at the surface from freezing.

The one he has is a set of pipes/tubes with holes that release compressed air. The pipes/tubes hang under the pier or from the boat, so that as the air up, it keeps surface water agitated, keeping it from freezing.
 
JimFromMD said:
Sounds like yours is more of a ducted fan kind of setup for lack of a better descritption... Propeller in a housing. Those are designed to move the warmer water up to the surface, keeping the cool layer at the surface from freezing.

The one he has is a set of pipes/tubes with holes that release compressed air. The pipes/tubes hang under the pier or from the boat, so that as the air up, it keeps surface water agitated, keeping it from freezing.
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Yes, mine is a underwater fan plugged into a temp switch that turns on at about 30 deg.
If it runs there's no ice near me..
 
We are located in Aurora, Indiana. Marina under roof, has De-Icers on all Docks running 24-7 now. I also have my De-Icer in( on a timer) but located to shoot water from under the hull which we have found this keeps warmer water flowing and does help keep the bilge temperature slightly above freezing. While the harbor has some ice, the Boats here are free of ice. The key is to have the De-Icer in before the water Temp drops to Freezing but even so it takes only a short time to break up the Ice once turned on.
 
looks more like slush than actual ice but that might be the picture. either way, it doesn't look like enough ice to worry.

my grandparents left their 1985 formula in the water one year with a torpedo shaped de-icer pointing towards the bow to keep ice away. it worked great until it broke and the boat was encapsulated in ice. I mean really trapped. we were worried about it crushing the hull or atleast making small cracks that allowed water in. went down there once a week when they were in Florida to check on house/dock/boat and it must have broken right after we left the last time. My father and I took an aluminum row boat out on the ice (so we wouldn't fall through) and had to smash through the ice to get out the broken and replace with the new de-icer. new one worked great and they still have the boat with no problems. It was in ice for at least a few days.
 
Not slush....solid ice 4-5 inches thick. floating free now.
 
Free - just in time for round . . .3 or 4 I've lost count. Looks like us guys in the East are missing out on the whole global warming thing and are in store for another nonexistent summer.
 
"another nonexistent summer.".........whatchu talkin' bout?

I am dreaming of a great boating summer. It is the only thing keeping me sane.
 
First time ever, I had to put a circulation pump behind the boat and pipe it around the sides. 2" of ice had me frozen in last week. Now they have posted winter storm warnings for us tomorrow and Wens... I was boating this time last year!
 
those bubblers are not the best choice.I would get a Ice eater that goes to the bottom.it has a big impeller that pushes warm water from below up to the surface.If the marina doesn't have them I would get my own.i think they run 5-600 hundred.you won't get any ice with that under your boat.
 
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