Help! Frozen Boat!

Damn, I figured the next poster would chime in and explain the seemingly silliness of my bubbles post, but nope, he ran off.

The best part of all this is, he'll go down to the local marina and find that others have bubblers installed and that their boats are free and clear. Maybe he'll realize that the Don Ho comments weren't so far off after all . . .

 

Carpe Diem

Wow! Tiny Bubbles made me Smile

What a Sensitive Bubba.

He was offened by Bubbles? Lots of them?

Hell I woulda opened a few Shiner Bocks and tied a John Deer to the Bass Boat and dragged it up the river bank.

It would be fine come spring.


Although I do rather like the idea of drilling a hole just upstream in the bow letting the warmmer water that is below the thermocline gently flow into the boat while it bathes the worms out of the bildge.

Just tie a chain to it and drag it out.

 

I never would have thought a forum would go this way..

He was offened by Bubbles? Lots of them?
below is a post I made on another forum.

"every time a senior member says something I find myself "hitting the books"*L*. keep it up! your a great inspiration...
I will get back to you when I'm building."

I am amazed at the thought of rescuing a boat via bubbles.
great stuff...
and I, as we all do, hopes bubbs comes out o.k.

 

For anyone in warmer climes that hasn't been there...
Movement of the water alone will free it up. I think that's all the bubbles are doing. I have decided, for whatever reason, that the lead to free water wasn't that far away and tied to the dock immobilized by four inches of ice, started and put it in reverse. Within twenty minutes there was a boat-sized patch of free water in front of the boat, pulled the boat out and as soon as I could turn, nosed the boat to the main dock and ran her up a bit. Within two hours, my buddies and I were headed out to go fishing and sealing.



It actually clumped a pan up under another sheet about two thirds of the way out. I just went out there and gave it a nudge with the bow to break the top sheet (it was lifting up with a mound of water under it), went back and blew it out for a few minutes and was free... a little scratched bottom paint, a "loading zone only" red smudge on the stem, a couple hundred bucks in fuel and one six pound king salmon for four guys!
My point is it's just not that big a deal - for outboards, wooden boats, YMMV.

 

Tell me more about this Seal Hunting ?

Can you get me a pelt?

Do you make Jerky from them?

Bubbles are Amazing

 

For those that like liver, it is the best. No, I am not legally able to even kill them, let alone get you one. Illegal for whites to get since '74, I think. Any animal hide, even marine mammals, can be purchased from a native if it is made into something, so if you want sea otter or seal, for example, get one to sew a few together loosely and make you a "blanket". I can't do it. Expect to pay dearly, as they sink and are a pain to get.

 

For "breaking the ice", Dynamite works too... Drill a small hole (in the ice, not the boat), grease the bar, put the bar down under the ice, fire up the "fuse", I prefer electric "triggers", keep a safe distance, both to you, (and the boat..).... Another great biproduct of this, since the boats frozen in, its probably also full of frozen water (here we call that product for "ice") from the unattended/ ignored period; its difficult to get out, from some parts of the boat, normally, but: If the dynamite is correctly placed, the blast will break up the ice inside boat too, in correctly sized ice cube that can easily be lifted out. If the blast is placed too near, you'll make all that ice into some crushed ice, difficult to get out, and impossible to walk in. If the blast is placed even nearer, call the local newspaper and report a meteorite downfall in that area, wait a couple of days, then call your insurance company...

 

Meteorite....

 

Some peoples children eh

We used bubblers out on the ranch to keep the water trouphs clear even in the dead of winter. Works great. Solar powered and kept an area clear of ice in the coldest weather, sometimes formed a frozen "bubble" but the horses knew were it was and often just nosed through the snow and found the whole.

oh well
maybe he'll hear it from someone else and realize he bailed out to soon

cheers
B

 

His loss. What a temper!

 

Temper ??? Perhaps he was frozen solid in the ice while rescuing his rig and will not be available for comment until spring thaw.
Poor guy.... long freeze up there, sure hope he brought some reading material.

 

He could use one of these boats instead..:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj6nKSqmCTo

In the summertime, he'd be screwed, though....

Ehh, well normally.... for some of the summers around her, it seem that there still will be possible to find some use for it, I may exaggerate somewhat here, but not much...

(Auch...; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgGmRKLd7h8&feature=related and this..:

.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8KArtcP4o0&feature=related. at 2:20 the "boat" there, I have the sail, seem to be a saturday job to get done...).

 

From 3:45 pm to 4:46 pm. He lasted 1 hour and 1 minute. That's kind of funny.

I had a 1960 Rambler Crosscountry station wagon in Minnesota that had clear vinyl seat covers. It was so cold one day, 40 below or something, when I got in the car the whole seatcover didn't just split, it shattered like a piece of glass.

It's really painful when toes thaw out.

 

Yes, in a sad way.

 

built a loggy up in Frazier valley back in the days before air guns ( trades off with some place in Minnesota for coldest place in the continuous US ) anyway the days we couldn't work were the days the nails would just shatter. Cant get much done if the nails just break. Usually something around -40° F. Sams seat comment reminded me. ( air guns seem to freeze at about -10° so these days everyone quits for the day right about then, not that I mind )

Same thing happened on a project up in Jackson's hole Wyoming just outside of Yellowstone, anything bellow about -40° and the nails dont hold together

speaking of which bubblers worked in stock tanks up there to