Posted by Bruce_A_Clarke on October 15, 2004 at 07:57:45 from 203.152.36.2 user Bruce_A_Clarke.
Once the children decided to use Captain Flint's houseboat as the FRAM, they visited on a daily basis, ran around etc on the boat. Wouldn't the ice around the boat have broken up from the rocking of the boat caused by all this activity and thus have become very dangerous. I have never seen a boat frozen in so I may be asking a naive question but I have read that when boats are frozen in, they become immobile and they are pushed higher in the air by the force of the ice around them. If the houseboat was completely frozen in, was it pushed higher and became immobile or would the ice around the hull have broken thus becoming dangerous?