![Fishing boat “New England” covered in ice, British Columbia - 1916 [1280x1867 - 222KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/4hN39o.jpg){kind=link}
Awesome pic. I used to live at sea and I miss it soo bad. I wonder how much ice they'd already busted off the ship before this was taken.
Yeah icing on a boat is just as bad (maybe worse) as planes. I saw them tied up so they're presumably at dock or being towed but didn't see hammers and sledges in their hand. "Smile boys, now get back to work!"
At least planes have heaters to help with some of that stuff. Imagine having to whack off a chunk of ice hanging on a line that's bigger than the line itself.
It's not even the physical-ness of it, you're working on ice, one slip away from almost instant hypothermia and a watery death. But if you're beating-to in a storm and one side of the boat ices up and you start listing, it just cascades. So you get out there and fucking whack it off the rigging. These guys are in a pretty good sitch.
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