February 22, 2021 By Keith Norrington
After years of a relative respite from severe winters, it appears that icy times have returned. Unlike the Upper Mississippi River where, owing to ice harbors, coves and other safe places, mariners in cold climates take icy conditions in stride, the Ohio River has never been well equipped to handle it; especially in steamboat days.
According to record, one of the worst ice blockages on the Ohio occurred in the 1850s, when the river completely froze and remained closed to traffic for 57 days.
As most river historians agree, the most damaging ice situation of all time, on both the Mississippi and Ohio, happened during the winter of 1918. With most of the steamboats still being wooden-hulled, the razor-sharp ice virtually sawed hulls off at the waterlines. As the ice piled up on main decks, it either sank the boat from the excessive weight or crushed the upper works.
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The Lillie M after being lengthened and sponsoned goes back in the water at Fred Wahl Marine Construction bearing its new name, Taryn Rose. Fred Wahl Marine Construction photo. There’s never a dull moment around here,” says Matt Hamilton, Quality/Project manager at
Fred Wahl Marine Construction after going over the list of boats currently in for repairs and alterations at the Reedsport, Ore., boatyard. The list includes sponsoning and lengthening, a near total restoration, some bottom-plate work, a repower, a new build, and a yacht or expedition-style pleasure craft, as it has been called, that has probably never been near crab pots but will soon be hauling them.
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