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Arctic Icebreaker Suffers Hull Damage in Alaska
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:48:03 -0500, Califbill billnews wrote: Keyser Söze wrote: On 7/14/15 11:46 AM, wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:05:38 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Thankfully the ones encountered on the ICW from the Carolinas' downward are nice soft sand. Don't ask how I know. There's one place though ... called "the Rock Pile" ... where you have to be very careful. When we went through heading south there was a beautiful 50 something foot Sportsfish up on the bank with a huge hole in it's hull. That is true until you get to the keys. Then you start seeing those coral heads that may be a couple feet underwater. They will do a job on shafts struts and wheels. Up in Alaska it seems everything is rock of some kind. Tin boats and jet drives are very popular. I've often wondered how much bottom abuse those alum boats can take. Depends on the boat. Mine is 3/16 bottom, and does have some dents. The bigger boats are 1/4" and take lots of abuse. Worse is like in the Rogue River, as the rock shelves are sharp, so slice the boat. That is even thicker than I was guessing by tapping on the hull. I know it was a real heavy tin boat. Some of the boats that run really shallow, nasty waters add a steel plate to part of the bottom. Some add UHMW sheets. |
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