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Just opened my 2022 WoodenBoat calendar and January is an ice boat. So, I went to YouTube and searched on Ice Yachting. It was mesmerizing. Here's one to start with. It is amazing!
1 hour ago, Bull City said:
Just opened my 2022 WoodenBoat calendar and January is an ice boat. So, I went to YouTube and searched on Ice Yachting. It was mesmerizing. Here's one to start with. It is amazing!
If there's ice, it's cold.that's not cold
From second hand experience you'll crawl to shore and get nice carbon fiber knee brace.I've been much tempted to build one, probably using a windsurfing rig. But I do wonder - Minnesota peeps clue me in, here -- how you see ice fishing holes and the frozen pile of shavings therefrom at 50mph, and what happens when you hit one.h34r:
i remember an article in wooden boat (?) years ago about ice boats and their history...they talked about HUUUUUGE ice boats on the Hudson River and speeds in excess of 100mph, if i recall correctly.Iceboats were the fastest mode of human transport for more than a century.
https://www.wissa.org/ the world ice and snow sailing championships were in saskatchewan in 2001. the site says at cedar lake...it was on blackstrap lake 20 minutes south of the city. it was a modest affair with maybe 20 people their but there were Finns and Quebecers and a couple of guys from Poland! the rigs were a wild collection of mostly home engineered and adapted gear. My buddy had his windsurfer on skates, there was a couple of DN's and a few guys on skis strapped to kites...i think the whole kite thing has evolved since then. There was a local with a 3 corner "boat" with snowboards as skis, he claimed to be able to sail across stubble fields and pastures if the wind got up!6 hours ago, Diarmuid said:
I've been much tempted to build one, probably using a windsurfing rig. But I do wonder - Minnesota peeps clue me in, here -- how you see ice fishing holes and the frozen pile of shavings therefrom at 50mph, and what happens when you hit one.h34r:
A kitewing and skates or skis would give more terrain options and be less dependent on conditions.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/329404696?h=de5853720c&app_id=122963
Iceboating was big on the Finger Lakes (NY) where I grew up. Classic Skeeters were the ticket, for the rich kids. Those things could fly. Buddy Melges raced one in the Midwest.i remember an article in wooden boat (?) years ago about ice boats and their history...they talked about HUUUUUGE ice boats on the Hudson River and speeds in excess of 100mph, if i recall correctly.