Hi Martin,
No ice at Chatterbox Falls anchorage or around the park dock.
We shared the dock with three other boats and were already tied up on
the coldest days. No ice on the way out of the inlet either but in
the morning at Secret Cove we had thin ice up to the boats in the
frozen anchorage. The boat I had then was the 60' ferro-concrete
cruiser so no problem breaking ice to allow "the plastic boat" :) , a
C&C 30, to get out unscathed.
One of the special days (of 3 in the inlet) was sunny and warmed the
rock walls enough that there were many "ice dams" that would break,
hundreds of feet above sea level, and tonnes of debris would come
cascading down the gulley. In the afternoon we had a dozen breaks
each hour. You would hear them first and then try to find them.
Cheers, Russ
Sweet 35 mk-1
At 01:49 PM 08/01/2014, you wrote:
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>> (Second coldest was -5 C, Princess Louisa Inlet, March 1995...
priceless!) <<
Russ,
Was there ice close to the falls? I have seen pics of cruiser's
breaking thin ice to get close enough to anchor in Princess Louisa
Inlet but have not heard any first-hand accounts.
Martin
Calypso
1971 C&C 43
Seattle
From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of
Russ & Melody
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Subject: Re: Stus-List friggin COLD
-10 C , 14 F - Seattle to Sidney, January 2005. Delivering Sweet to
home port, Nanaimo.
We had a parabolic propane fired camping heater, only used when
stopped. The hatch froze one morning so it took awhile to thaw with
the stove running before I could get to the cockpit where the 20#
bottle for the (disconnected) heater was sitting.
Otherwise we had lots of candles burning too.
(Second coldest was -5 C, Princess Louisa Inlet, March 1995... priceless!)
Cheers, Russ
Sweet 35 mk-1
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