So whats the deal with you Northern folks.

What you forget is that in your southern climes, you also have freat periods
of time where it is bery wet and humid or it's hurricane season, and
although you can live on your boat, sailing is for crap.

Do you pull your boats to keep the ice from crunching them, \

Basically, yes....

or it it
just so cold that you never take them anywhere?

You'd have to attach skis to the bottom...the ice breaker only goes down the
middle of Lake Michigan until the end of December and then they just let
everything freeze over if it's a cold winter...or maybe they don't do that
anymore since there aren't any more Christmas tree boats going to Chicago...

What about the folks who live aboard. What do they do?

They line their docks with bubblers so the water doesn't freeze and hope to
God the power doesn't go out...

Move ashore.

Marina we used to stay at had a family that lived aboard while their boat
was on the hard...had to use a portable pump out device....was quite rugged
from what I heard...

Do the steel hulls stay in the water?

No. Aren't that many of them up here. Unless you're a laker and they stay
in the water...not much stops a laker....but they stop running when the big
lake freezes over...

Unafraid of the ice.

You ever seen moving ice flows? Even in your steel hull you would be
afraid...ice flows can hull you pretty fast...

Must suck to only be able to use your boat half the year.

Yeah? Every time we go to Florida we see tha majority of boats that sit and
rot in marinas and never go out. People up here use their boats every
chance they get...

Make your boat worth half as much huh?

Nope...actually our boats have better value because they don't suffer the
depredation of salt and excessive UV rays...

Keep trolling...maybe you'll get good at it one day....

Joe