Ice covers the deck and sticks very well to the Alwgrip nonskid. You cannot scrape it off, and after trodden on and remelted a couple of times it is snot slick.

You cannot set tools or bolts on the deck, they freeze in place and can't be picked up without an ice axe.

You cannot adjust your dock lines, they are frozen to the deck (I have some nice permanent Flemish coils). Even if you get the tail pried from the deck, the line is frozen in the shape of the chock and cleat, you cannot persuade it to change.

Thank God for diesel heat - except yesterday afternoon, it quit. My boat is 24V, the heater 12V so there is a DC-DC down converter dedicated to running it. Heater stopped, however the down converter was quite hot! Disassembly reveals a latent manufacturing defect: the large copper screw lug terminals have 6 little pins intended to be soldered to the board. But along with the solid copper planes in the board, it is too big a heat sink and did not get soldered correctly by the wave solder process, resulting in cold joints, a high resistance connection, and completion of the de-solding process in situ. I need a pretty fancy soldering station to fix it, the 60W Weller on board hasn't a chance. This morning, needed my little electric heater on deck to keep some epoxy warm enough to cure, so now I have no heat at all! I know, pretty soft, what would the pioneers have done? (probably build a wood fire on deck, but this is hard on the yacht finish...)

To cap my little rant, the rental car (a small Chevy SUV) does not warm up rapidly, if at all. The drive to West Marine is 30 minutes (they moved it from near the marinas to across town in an epiphany of logic), the car is not fully warm by the time I get there. My Honda (at home basking in 70 degree weather) will be fully warm by the end of my driveway.

Ah! Messing about in boats - nothing like it. Looking forward to the snow forecast for Tues-Wed.