Safeguard Your Boat's Deck From Ice Damage This Winter It is the very first day of fall, which means winter is right around the bend, which is absolutely no fun sailors who reside in the northern slice of the earth, unless, of course, you're an ice-boater or frost-biter-- in which case, I'm happy for you (spoken like a true Floridian). Your marine toilet systems experts talk about how regarding all of the numerous evils that winter visits upon our boats-- mold, mildew, snow, ice-- one of one of the most insidious is actually also unnoticeable. I'm speaking about the water, soon to become ice, that could be trapped in the center of your deck. In case you had worrying leakages at your mast, your forward hatch, or deck hardware this particular summer, those niggles can become nightmares whenever freezing temperatures begin to do their sledgehammer work upon our boats-- as well as our psyche. Many decks these days are sandwich cores, which possess a stiffening material, typ...