The hole northern half of the bay from jamestown bridge north is frozen as is the sakkonet river(at least around portsmouth). Dont see this too often. I was talking to a older women who is a realator who was telling me in the 70's her and her friend took a table out on newport harbor and had dinner and wine sitting on the ice, never seen the harbor freeze in my 21 years on aquidneck island.

I heard that the Massachusetts islands are cut off from boat traffic.

Back in '94 the bay froze north of the jamestown bridge... I was driving over the bridge on the way back to RIT (where I went to college at the time) and as I looked down on the ice I saw a few seals hanging out on the edge of the ice... I felt like I was in alaska or something.

There aren't too many times when I can walk to work:)

I walked right across the Seekonk River =============even thru the channel ================================================== ==some years ago///////////

goosefish, you still bustin ice??

last night I was thinking about ice removal.... my idea was if you guys had some thick floating polly rope and let it float around the farm.... as the ice formed you tied the rope to the barge and just towed all the ice away :huh:

Something like that Eben. We cut large blocks of ice: 1-2 acres in size. Then we take two boats and we ram them into the flow, and push them out. The northeast wind the past day has really helped.
In a funny way i enjoy it, kind of like the snow plow that I never drove. If that makes any sense at all.

cool! kind of like mowing the lawn

Its more dramatic than the lawn, got more Russel Crowe in it, Herman Melville. Its slow action however, real slow. Once we got the berg on the hip it takes a while to get her on down the pond.

All boat comuter boat traffic from south shore to boston has stopped. If you are familiar with the Fore River you could walk from Weymouth to Quincy. I was reading a post on anouther web site and it said it got so cold in the lae 1800's that you could walk from Martha's Vinyard to Woods Hole. Now thats cold.

I was on Wareham Bay on Tuesday. I had to get little necks and oysters for my clubs game dinner on friday night.
I had to cut 14" of solid ice with the chain saw.
Got to go out again this afternoon for more.

All of Quincy and Dorchester bays are covered with ice. Every cold snap you see the ice stretch a little further into the harbor. Hopefully this slug of cold water doesn't hold the bass in NJ like last year. We need our fifties too.

Originally posted by Don Corleone
Hopefully this slug of cold water doesn't hold the bass in NJ like last year. We need our fifties too.

:mad: :mad: :mad: :af:

oh...... that will suck:(