cubdriver2
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The pond I'm on is a peat bog and only about 3' deep. I got froze in a few years ago trying to log float time in December. It froze one Monday and I would stop twice a day and break the ice around the floats. I was thinking I would have to wait till the ice got thicker so we could pull it up on top to take off. But after a week it warmed up enough that the wind broke it up, and half of my 3000' pond opened up enough for me to take off. I flew it over to Island Bobs just before dark on Friday taking advantage of the open ice at my place because the temp was going to drop that night. Bobs is 1000' lower then me so I parked it at his dock and stole Nic's Vagabond to get home before dark. When I returned Sat around noon it was frozen in at Bob's in the still water on the back side of the island. I figured I could taxi the 800' to the open Hudson River because the ice around the floats was only half an inch thick. As I got about 50' from shore the ice started getting thicker and now the front of the floats were riding up on the ice before breaking under their weight. I started getting scared that I was going to get stuck in mid channel so I fire walled it and to my surprise it climbed right up on top of the ice and took off.
Soooo.... I'm a slow learning and was still in the water this Sat night looking at 17F on the thermometer think how stupid I am again. I don't know if the 3000 geese swimming all night or the light 2mph breeze kept the water open but I was happy to get out Sunday morning and head to Bob's.
We got Tom out also
Glenn
Soooo.... I'm a slow learning and was still in the water this Sat night looking at 17F on the thermometer think how stupid I am again. I don't know if the 3000 geese swimming all night or the light 2mph breeze kept the water open but I was happy to get out Sunday morning and head to Bob's.
We got Tom out also
Glenn
