LOL, check out this...soft water, or hard??

[brianroy6]

http://www.lakestclair.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=39269

:lol: :lol:

[jampg]

More beer please! WOW.

[fishindude644]

Not the brightest bulb in the box. They is crazy!!

[Blaketrout]

I wonder if they did any damage to the hull? I know from first hand experience that aluminum doesn't do too well running in ice. Pretty risky none the less!:dizzy:

[huntingmaniac45]

:bonk: :bonk: :bonk:

[Slick fishing]

Thats crazy:dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy: Cya Slick

[Mark Sylvester]

And people say I'm Nutz!!!!!:dizzy:
These boys are the reeeeel deal!!!

[RIVER LADY]

:yikes: They have pills for that.:dizzy:

[PITBULL]

:yikes: They have pills for that.:dizzy:

Looks like they were washin them down with Beer.

[thos1971]

THAT IS FREAKING NUTS :tdo12: :tdo12:

[motcityman]

thats not right

[Ed Michrina]

Wonder if they will re-winterize:dizzy: prob. not.

[Gone Fishing]

I didn't know Castmaster got a new boat! :p I can't believe they made it all the way to Brown's in the Middle Channel and were lucky enough to get back to the launch! I'm sure their gelcoat will never look quite the same!:lol:

[ROBBY MEYERS]

I wonder if they did any damage to the hull? I know from first hand experience that aluminum doesn't do too well running in ice. Pretty risky none the less!:dizzy:

could you tell use of you first hand experience with aluminum and ice?? I have a aluminum boat out all winter but I do idle trough the afected areas and yet to do damage

[Ed Michrina]

In Spring and Fall I'm normally pushing through or travel where someone broke thicker ice to get to open water. I have had no problems and this is with a thin aluminum 16 foot boat. Slow idle. I'm more worried about damaging or spinning a prop.

[Mark Sylvester]

How do you guys think a glass boat would hold up???
Never been out this early, but I think my Yar-Craft got the itch!!!:D

[alex-v]

These guys were not the first. Here is someone who never left:

http://home.ix.netcom.com/~library-lady/photos/iced-ins.jpg

[CASTMASTER 5000]

From the look of those top-quality docks...I'm pretty sure the marina owners weren't to worried about the boat staying in all winter. What a lazy @#$%!:yikes:

[alex-v]

I cut the photo down to make it more dial-up friendly but in the original we could read the date on the registration tag. It would appear the registration expired in '98. Who ever is there did run a rope to the front to help keep it up out of the water.

I just looked at a photo of the boat from last year and it would appear that someone has shown up and taken most of the water out of it. Yesterday it was sitting a lot higher than it was back in mid-November.

[Blaketrout]

could you tell use of you first hand experience with aluminum and ice?? I have a aluminum boat out all winter but I do idle trough the afected areas and yet to do damage

This happened years back when I was quite a bit younger. A buddy and I tried to rush the open water season by plowing through some last ice with a row boat on an inland lake. We were Idling right along making it about 150-200 yards through appoximately 1-3" rotten ice. I look down at my feet and notice some water. Looking at the bow of the boat where the ice was hitting looked all banged up and had a few cracks in the aluminum from the impact with the ice. We promptly turned around (nearly getting stuck) and high tailed it back to shore in the channel we had cut. We had about 3-4 inches of water in the boat by the time we got back in.

Not sure of the make of the row boat or anything (thickness of the hull) but it left a lasting impression on me. I avoid the ice with a boat like the plague!
That water is still cold!