Here's a photo I just took of the edge of a glacier ice field
Took this last September...
Taken from a 2855 Bayliner, Tracy Arm ice cube, Glacier bay John Hopkins glacier
I would be terrified for my hull and props' sakes. I've never encountered ice like that though.
Great pictures!
Vessel wasn't that close.
In retrospect if the glacier face calfed being in all that ice moving in the shock wave might be not such a good thing. Also wind moving the ice could pack around you making for another problem. Watching the ice move around you is amazing. I got by with it multiple times without damage. Staying off the face of the glacier at least a mile is probably wise, even at that distance you feel right on top the glacier.I ran for probably well over a mile in ice like in Marks picture (but w bigger pices) my extremely light 28'OB where most of the hull was 3/8ths plywood. Was quite noisy and we went 2 or so knots. No damage to hull or prop. Prop was quite deep because of the boats design.
The most dangerous thing commonly done around ice is to get real close to large pices or bergs. Sometimes they roll over. Very bad things can happen then. I would never get close to pice of ice that would be an "event" if it rolled over.
Did the 'vessel' have twenty foot diameter props?
Here's a photo I just took of the edge of a glacier ice field
Kevin: Is that from one glacier or several? How big an area are we looking at?
Kevin: Is that from one glacier or several? How big an area are we looking at?
Kevin, is that Blackstone bay or Resurrection bay?
That is between jackpot bay and whale bay, south western Prince William Sound.