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Vern, you gracious old man you! Coupla questions:
Will they come with forgivable farm loans?
Farmers only .com?

You’ll have to feed them.

It's why I hang out here. Always good advice!

Not mine.... I specialize.

Mainer,

Sorry but big girls are all we have to offer. After that wind last week, it may be spring before the smaller girls get back to town.

How about if I offer to haul em to the top of Tenderfoot Hill?

Looks like that boat is sitting bow up. Perhaps you could heat sand up on a wood stove or in metal buckets by a fire. Assuming the inside of the boat is dry, dump the hot sand toward the back, reheat, and keep moving forward. If you can get a thin void melted between the hull and the ice, you may
be able to pop it loose. Tenting and heating should also work if you have enough time and fuel.

You mean the kind of housing the District maintains....so, when they let it run out of fuel and you come home at 6 o'clock on a Friday night, they tell you, "get some from the day tank (which is on a stand 8 feet in the air). Use a pipe wrench to remove the water trap (but don't spill any of the 265 gallons.)" ....and women complain about inequity in the workplace. Lol

Or when the town loses power while the school is hosting a tournament so the maintenance people don't have time to deal with their outlying housing so you you make a 35 mile RT to camp for a generator in 30 mph winds screaming off the ocean in -20-something temps....on your most trusted machine...which has no skegs.

But we did dispense with honeybuckets after 13 years or so....

Vern, I don't think u lost your skinnies to the winds. I suspect meth, check big delta......

Klik, sounded like an amazing employee retention initiative. Really makes the 10g extra salary fer teaching in the Bush, soooo worth it!

Overflow happened again, filled in all my axe work, 8 inches higher. The Tanana river sang to me:

Go on take the Honda and run ooh ooh ooh!

Job security CAN suck!

Ugh! Ma Natty, is never stingy about her reminders about who's boss. Sometimes you're not going to win, but just go with the hope that things will sort themselves out in the end. (Perhaps she thinks you deserve to buy yourself a new boat?)

I'm not inclined to give in however, the proof in the fact that my bones aren't lying in some desolate if beautiful creek somewhere. Would it be possible to drill long holes side to side through the ice and thread heat tape, or rebar and a welder to melt it out enough to pop it out?

Water utilities in Anchorage have to use a steam set to dig a water break depth of bury is around 10ft, often takes 12 plus hours to prep a dig, Steam would work if he could get one and get it in there. Commercial rentals may have one but tough to rent may require boiler license.

Only thing I can think of lo tech would be trench around and under with a saw and ice auger and salt or snow melt the trench to break the bond. But if overflow continues?

Current shifted, and there is now 3-4 ft of water underneath the boat. Walked out there, ice is too thin to walk on, about 1 inch of ice. Current is strong enough to sweep a guy under the ice.

Not safe to work on the boat, woodstove locked in too, kinda needed that stove for winter caribou hunt with the dog team.

Dang, what a saga !

How many segments for LBZ episodes could be made about this ?
I bet you could get a whole season out of this, maybe an Emmy.
Go caribou hunting with dog sled ... come back to check on the boat ...
go ice fishing ... come back to check on the boat ...
build a new work shop ... come back to check on the boat ... etc.

Maybe consider another spot to winter your boat if there's a next time.

Mainer,

If you need a stove for spring caribou, you can borrow mine.

CCP just ran a big balloon over this area. They must've needed pics of your canoe problems.

Update:

Few days ago, swung axes for 8 hours. A neighbor helped and brought a water pump. We hacked at least 3000 lbs of ice outta the boat.

Kept pumping river water to soften sides and bottom of ice. With drain plug clear, and a trench cut behind boat, the water sure did help.

The expansion of all that ice cracked the welds on the transom metal. If the boat was wholly made of aluminum, it would been destroyed. The flexible epoxy and biaxial cloth is unscathed. Boat will repair up just fine.

Did not like working/walking on soft ice while high water was raging uderneath, but when that shelf ice breaks, that boat is gone. So was a real short window of opportunity. Especially with the flood warnings.

Drug boat up to higher ground, into the trees and tied it off. Should just paint the fkn thing yellow and rename it the "Tanana Banana". Just leave it wherever and look for it in the spring.

Whatta chore...
yellow eh, could end up in Emmonak. !

When I saw you at the Post Office, I thought sure as hell you were looking for those fat girls to thaw out that canoe.
The Post Office is Delta's better place for trolling.

Woah, then I better put a condom on the big tanana banana.

Just happy the canoe was saved and no one got hurt, was looking grim!