The Qualified Captain

[b_arrington]

That ice doesn't look too bad - fairly thin.

A friend of mine boats out of Juneau, Alaska and he bumped into a "growler" (small bits if icebergs) with his bow while visiting one of the glacial bays last year. It did some damage near his bow thruster, take a chunk out of the outside and making cracks on the inside around the thruster tube. Glacial ice is dense, hard, sharp, and nothing to mess with.

 

[Gofirstclass]

Our last cruise of the year was the lighted boat parade in the first weekend of December, and the first cruise of the new year was on Jan 1 unless the weather was horrible.

We often broke ice, up to about 1.5" to get in and out of the slip.

Here's our marina in mid-February. My slip is near the end of the dock on the left.