[canals-list] Re: blacking and moving

[Pengalanty]

--- In canals-list@yahoogroups.com, Bob Wood <bobdotw...@...> wrote:
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> 2009/12/30 Pengalanty <allan...@...>:
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> > I don't think there can be ANY coating to withstand the sharp edges of 
> > broken ice.
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> > The only possibility is an angled "Plough" similar in shape to the road 
> > vehicles, fitted in front of a boat to break up the ice BEFORE the bow of 
> > the boat reaches it.
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> Even this wouldn't prevent coating being removed from the side of the boat.
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True, very true, nor some of the blacking from the moored boats as the ice is 
"forced" into them whilst cruising past!
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> Bob
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