Frozen in

When they called for bad snow storms we put the Gliding Gander under the roof at Piney Narrows Yacht Haven.  The people are great and have very nice facilities.  The only problem is they cannot "Garontee" the harbor won't freeze up.  As you will see, due to Piney Narrows wonderful bubbler system, no ice builds up under the covered roofs or on the boats.  However, the bubbler system cannot prevent the canals to the individual slips from freezing up.

Ice in the canal leading to the slip but not in the slip.

Gliding Gander's Chesapeake Styling and low freeboard looks very different from those much larger high freeboard yachts.  Nevertheless, at the end of the day, Gander will travel many more miles, to many more ports, in much shallower water, at a much faster speed, for much less than half of the fuel.  However, think Jed Clampett and the Beverly Hillbillies old truck in comparison.

In the background you can see the thick ice built up in the canal leading to the Gander's slip.  In the foreground you might detect the much thinner ice that still blocks the canal.  While Gliding Gander is able to easily cut the ice, that same ice could damage the hulls of other boats if we were to break out and shove that ice into other boats.