The launch of the duck boats is a rite of spring, but this year even the amphibious vehicles have fallen victim to the unseasonably cold and snowy winter.
Boston Duck Tours will begin its 21st season today, but with some special measures to avoid frozen feathers. The duck boats will either not go in the water at all or make an abbreviated swim thanks to ice still clogging the Charles River.
"Any time you go in the water with ice, it's not a good idea. The Titanic is a good example," said Bob Schwartz, a spokesman for Boston Duck Tours. "It would just not be the safe thing."
The land-water tour company actually pushed back its opening date this year to try to avoid an iced-over Charles, but it wasn't enough of a delay, Schwartz said.
The average temperature in February was more than 12 degrees colder than normal, according to the National Weather Service, and March temperatures have been below normal too.
Duck Tours will be 50 percent off until the amphibious vehicles can make the full water run, which usually lasts around 20 minutes, Schwartz said. For now, if the duck boats take a dip at all, it will last around 10 minutes. If the water is not frozen where the duck boats splash in, the vehicles will make the trip around the mouth of the Charles, but not up the river.
Schwartz said not going in the water will be tough for riders.
"It's such a big draw, that's who we are," he said. "It's the thing that people really want to experience when they come."
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