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I can not believe I got iced out of my boat .there is about a inch or so of ice accross the top of the boat with ice filling the tracks of the companion way slide and the front hatch is.dogged down ...this is not supposed to happen in Charleston sc .we are heading to Florida Tues. To warmer weather ...

In South Carolina? That's not right. You need to be in the Bahamas.

Right now, I'm pretty sure my boat is covered in snow and ice.

--Russ

At least once a year.

Crikey I thought it was bad enough near Alice Springs one year (centre of Aust) when it was -5c (23f) in the boat but only -3c (26.6f) in the fridge, we should have slept in the fridge
We got under way pretty quick to get out of the desert country and lovely warm, hate cold.

Ice is bad, but its the frost that always gets me. When its iced up it's usually pretty miserable out so we tend to stay at the dock. When it frosts over its always beautiful out and we push to get south for the weekend, and trying to manoeuvre on a frost cover deck is not fun. I'd be better off soaping the topside up and leave out the rinse cycle. It melts off pretty quick once we hit the sunny side of the canal.

Went to have a look at the boat last week for the first time since putting it to bed for the winter. It was surrounded by 3 feet of snow and the tarp was a bit loose but weighted down by ice and snow. I said screw it and went home

We live on a farm and my driveway is like a half mile long and heavily wooded and I had 3 trees come down and I needed the batteries out of my Mac because my back hoe batteries were weak .I was just gonna push the trees out of the way but I wasn't gonna break the slides on the boat getting into i had to cut them up with the chain saw but it made me think what a pain in the butt it could be ..or if anybody ever woke up.stuck on there boat . our power company is changing all our power poles here on the island and giving away all the ones they took down .they dropped about thirty off here for me to build a boat shed for the boat .but then again this Charleston s.c I shouldn't be discussing a iced over boat ....

Be careful down there guys, sorry you are experiencing a blast of NE winter.

Treat Mother Nature with respect because she is Darwin's tool....

Bahama Bound,

When I saw this post I thought you had run out of ice for your beer I'm glad to see it wasn't anything serious

Ray

I keep an electric heater in the boat right below the hatch, with a heavy extension cord hanging out. If hatch is frozen, I plug in the extension cord and wait a while. Of course, tonight we are getting freeing rain so if we lose electricity goes out, that plan won't work! Worse yet: The generator is in the boat!

I really thought about the heater .....sun was back out today a warm sunny 50 degrees tomorrow supposed to.be 65 and Sunday low 70's

Better here 44 yesterday but only 42 earlier, course thats celcius

Yikes! I would think that the weight of an inch or more layer of ice would be a serious threat to the stability of a boat if it happened to be in the water, especially if ballast was out.
The thermometer finally rose to above freezing here today, it actually felt quite balmy, so we celebrated with an ice cream cone!

anybody ever been iced out of their mac?

Ummm....yes...me...for the last *&%$$ three months. I am still trying to figure out why anyone started a city here, and what I am doing still living here!

I really thought about the heater .....sun was back out today a warm sunny 50 degrees tomorrow supposed to.be 65 and Sunday low 70's

I love free shore power. Was off work for snowpocapalis last week...Thursday shoveled the dock off (no one had touched it ) cranked the heat and spent the night.