[Public-list] Re: ice

[Gordon White]

I had the cockpit fill with snow, melt a bit, re-freeze, etc. plugging 
up the drains. Never got the bilge that full, as, left in the water on 
Chesapeake Bay the water temperature, even under four inches or so of 
surface ice outside the boat, never got below 32 degrees.  It "warms" 
the hull enough to keep bilge water from freezing. I worried about the 
bilge pump freezing up and burning out, but so far that has not 
happened. The cockpit tarp blew off in last Sunday's blow (knocked down 
two 50 foot pines, 50 yards from the boat, so you know it was really 
whistling.) Some snow got into the cockpit before I was able to replace 
the tarp, but it melted on Wednesday. Now, of course, any water has 
re-frozen.

- Gordon White
Brigadoon II