Ice eater
For a great many years I lived at the end of Winter Harbor (near Carry Beach), and had a fixed dock on pilings. I tried triple pilings and circulators, and some years things were good, and others not so good. When the ice breaks up, and the wind blows, even just a light breeze, the sheet ice will go where it wants, when it wants, and do damage regardless of what protection you have.
The punch line is, "You can't fool Mother Nature". (Mother Nature's children are all those barges running around in the spring doing dock repairs.)
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