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timgarrod

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what to do when the lake is frozen
« on: January 17, 2016, 05:40:31 pm »
Turned up to the lake today and saw the lake was frozen,

good job i brought the Odin to sail  {-)

https://youtu.be/GlstvH74yF0


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Re: what to do when the lake is frozen
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2016, 05:57:37 pm »
LUTON mbc went to the lake today, it wasnt frozen but we did have bacon rolls and tea!!!
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Re: what to do when the lake is frozen
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2016, 06:24:28 pm »
High Klunk and others we are further north and it is a lot colder.Hence thicker ice only good for hovercraft.See club events Sunday at Kirklees.


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Re: what to do when the lake is frozen
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2016, 07:06:01 pm »
Black (or was it White) Park Lake looked like a Christmas Card today, with kids playing snowballs.  No ice, and was darned cold, but a lovely couple of hours sailing none the less.
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Re: what to do when the lake is frozen
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2016, 07:09:49 pm »
Wish we had a bit more cold weather here.


The Terry Fox,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Y_3QiLt2w


 and the Amundsen(Canada)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj1KRLUlV14


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Re: what to do when the lake is frozen
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2016, 07:24:45 pm »
This is what we found this morning lake frozen over very little colour everything grey or white. Thick ice only fit for things that skim above the ice.

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Re: what to do when the lake is frozen
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2016, 08:21:23 pm »
You need to be careful breaking ice like that. I sunk my Billings Smit Nederland doing this. When making the hull I decided that the original moulded anchor recesses had too rounded corners due to the vacforming process. I cut them out and replaced them with styrene sheet which looked much better. Unfortunately the anchor recesses are right on the waterline and the ice pushed one of them in breaking the joint to the hull. Only noticed this when  it started getting lower in the water and I couldn't get it back to shore on time. Luckily our pond is not too deep so it was easy to recover but wading in freezing water is no fun even with waders.
One of our members used a small coaster with balsa block bows to break ice. It came in with deep gouges in the bows.

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Re: what to do when the lake is frozen
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2016, 08:33:25 pm »
Hi JimG far safer on land See above post.

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 Breaking the ice with your model :(( :(( :(( :(( :(hovering on the ice or land  :-)) :-)) :-)) :-))
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Re: what to do when the lake is frozen
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2016, 08:38:47 pm »
It was drizzly and cool with nothing frozen so I got my Biccu Tug out for a tootle about and 'Father' (Brian, our Chairman) got his airboat out for a whizz. After twenty minutes of that nonsense, we went up to the pub and had coffee!
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Re: what to do when the lake is frozen
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2016, 09:54:49 pm »
Hi.
Snow / Ice..no problem just get the hovercraft out. :-))
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Re: what to do when the lake is frozen
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2016, 11:19:37 pm »
The fishing boat at about 1:23.... Is that one of those Cold War Russian "Trawlers"? had a fair turn of speed for a fishing boat lol
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Re: what to do when the lake is frozen
« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2016, 12:47:33 am »
Bury was completely frozen today, probably half an inch of ice so too much even for the typhoon! Hopefully I can bring it back when the ice has melted a little
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Re: what to do when the lake is frozen
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2016, 05:34:03 pm »
yea, think the fishing boat is trying to scale speed of 1:1.
used to be faster, I remember the first time we saw it, the motor was water cooled  {-)
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Re: what to do when the lake is frozen
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2016, 08:00:58 pm »
our lake at rawdon was frozen has well.no boating done but the ladies got in to do the cooking for us.passed the time then watching the people sledging down the hill towards the lake.
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Re: what to do when the lake is frozen
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2016, 08:02:58 pm »
Went up to Whitely Lake some time ago, it had ice on it on one half, Ship mate 60's boat got stuck in it, I had a large TID tug then, put that in the water and with its cut away bow, it turned out to be an ideal ice breaker. It lifted up and smashed its way through the ice with ease, unfortunately Bobs boat was of balsa construction and came of worse.
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