Possible Clues:

• Afloat without steerage
• Lost a daughter when having quarrel
• Notice the narrow opening at sea
• Why Saatchi left Saatchi alone?
• A sign of a white Christmas getting out of control
• Not under current control
• Modern-day separation is out of control
• Having a meaning, not having a purpose
• Unrestrained, as a ship
• A pile of snow - like an ice-floe?