From The Land Of Wooden Shoes
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LAKE RONKONKOMA ICE BOAT YACHT CLUB SWAP MEET CONT’D
More info here: http://www.iceboatlongisland.com/
LAKE RONKONKOMA ICE BOAT YACHT CLUB SWAP MEET
2016 LRIBYC Swap Meet Coming Up!!
John Ziermann has this announcement from LI- book your ferry tix now and don’t miss this party!
TO ALL:
THE SEASON HAS STARTED!!
It’s getting closer by the day….. DUH No kidding… I can’t wait ….
The great bargains … the cool stuff … get cash for some of that stuff
lying around … eat and drink ……meet new friends…pay your membership fee … WOW lots going on all in one day.
FREE FOOD AND DRINK FOR ALL!
(BTW, we only do this free stuff once a year)
Winter is around the corner, LET’S GET READY TO SWAP!
Bring your stuff…
Bring your cash…
Bring your best swap lingo…
SELL…SELL…SELL… BUY…BUY…BUY…LAKE RONKONKOMA ICE BOAT YACHT CLUB SWAP MEET
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In Memorium-
This piece written by Greg Whitehorse was on the CIBC site- very well said-
Ice Boat Story Time
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James “T” Thieler
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DN World and North American Championship News!
If you’re a DN’er take note- make this the year to go! Both regattas in the States (Western Region is hosting I think) and it promises to be a great event!
The 2017 IDNIYRA World Championship and North American Regatta office is now open. Register early to avoid late fees!
Registration information and Notice of Race for both regattas has been posted on the 2017 DN Iceboat Worlds information page.
Think ICE!!
IceBoating is HAPPENING!!
Check it out- looks like our Russian friends have already found some sailable ice!
Congrats guys, I can tell you there are some very jealous sailors in North America today!
If you want to join them head for the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station- I think it’s north of Lake Baikal.
Great Video From East Of Here….
Hello All- No matter what your skill level or degree of interest in IceBoating is you’ll love this video.
The Waterlust crew put it together on Lake Baikal last spring-
If this doesn’t get you fired up for the season I don’t know what will!
New And Improved LI Website!
Hey Folks- Ralph Hilbert checks in from LI with this bit of good news:
Joe Natale did a lot of work updating the LI club’s web site. It’s looking terrific.
Check it out at http://www.iceboatlongisland.com
Get back to him with any comments/suggestions at 66chevelle300
Thanks!
Ralph
DEJA VU YET AGAIN….
Continuing with the wind assisted sled and cart topic, my dad checks in again with this little nugget….
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that is from an arctic robert e. peary expedition – not sure which one as he made many.
he would have used the sled with dogs and sails on all of them.
the wheel was a common measuring device on many explorations to measure distance for dead reckoning calculations.
not unlike the taffrail log you ocean navigators use to guess your speed/distance.
also may have been used by Scandinavian immigrants to help take some load off the horses pulling the wagon train headed to wisconsin with the first load of cheese culture.
Best, Ed
Coolest (literally) Marathon Ever
Want to see a bit of Lake Baikal but not interested in dragging an iceboat all the way there? Here is a minimalist way to do it- on foot! Yes, they have figured out the only thing more insane than sailing on a giant frozen lake- running a marathon on it! Paging Dan Hearn from Madison, I think he’s a distance runner type…
http://www.baikal-marathon.org/
And if you are looking for a different sort of long distance adventure on that little lake check this one out- Sounds kind of like doing Winni the hard way only it takes a month or something, so maybe it isn’t so different now that I think about it…
https://vimeo.com/166866282
Speaking of Lake Baikal it may not be too late to sign up for DN race over there this spring- click if you’re interested!
http://www.baikaliceyachtracing.eu/Baikal_Ice_Yacht_Racing/Home.html
THINK ICE!!
James “T” Thieler
12 Channing St.
Newport, RI 02840
401 258 6230
t_thieler
Iceboat Training….
Seems like only yesterday Scott Valentine sent in a photo of his DN training ritual from a year or so ago. It showed him sitting in a Laz-E_Boy chair drinking a can of cheap beer with his helmet and spikes on.
This vid shows that he has stepped it up a bit! Shot on Columbus day, somewhere out on LI-
Thanks Scott! Looks like a good day and certainly will get some people thinking about the upcoming season…. Think ICE!
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Meanwhile On LI….
….Scott and the gang took advantage of the big breeze the other day to get this bad-boy out for a spin. Watch out for these guys this season, they’ve been in the zone and working on gear all summer….
Deja Vu Yet AGAIN
Just as I thought the sailing sled topic had run it’s course this little photo was sent in from WI by Deb at the Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club.
This is impressive- I get the dogs, the sails make sense, but what’s with the little wheel in back? Does it measure distance? Speed? Both?
Anyone know where, what and when? Leave a comment if you do-
Think Ice! T
DEJA VU Cont’d….
Colin Duncan from Kingston, Ontario weighs in on the sailing sled photo with this tidbit-
I’m still amazed that no one has weighed in with a critique of sail trim and / or runner selection….
T,
The photo of the sleds suggests maybe a northern Canadian lake, such as Great Slave, even Winnipegosis (favourite name). The ice is so smooth (and flat) it is hard to believe it is an Arctic or Antarctic scene. My wife, an historian of Canada working on energy history, thinks she has seen the pic somewhere before. Last year flying out to the ASEH conference in Seattle I saw the frozen southern part of Lake Winnipeg, an almost perfect circle fragment in shape. Amazingly alluring but there seemed to be nobody at all using it.
Cheers, Colin
Deja Vu Follow-Up
Hey Folks- You may have seen the photo I put up awhile ago of the guys hauling the sled with the square sail on it-
My father saw it and followed up with the email below- interesting stuff and a reminder to not get casual about cold-weather safety. Read on:
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See if anyone comes up with this.
I believe this may be the ill-fated Scott expedition setting out for the south pole. They all froze to death – the last of them not far from camp. c. 1910-1912-ish
The sleds are being man-hauled, typically British – they totally eschewed dogs as being beneath them – Amundson beat them to the pole with his dogs and skis by about a month – in fact for him the trip was a walk in the park and reported as quite uneventful. As planned, late in the trip, as he discarded useless stuff, he ate some of the dogs.
Scott did have dogs, ponys, and a kind of primitive snow-mobile, and they did have sails for when the wind was favorable.
The untested -except in England – snow-mobiles failed very rapidly in the frigid antarctic conditions – I think the oil solidified, all sorts of mechanical breakdowns, they fell into crevasses, etc.
They never practiced sledging with dogs, or skis – just loaded them on the boat figuring that educated English gentlemen could learn to do it in a few days after they got on the ice. They also found the unruly nature of the dogs to be tiresome.
The horses needed too much food – horsepower to pounds of hay ratio not good.
They did use all of these modalities to get started but they all turned back and the five doomed men started the trek south.
One of many fabulous stories of dramatically courageous, first rate, tragedies involving the adventure-hungry Brits.
Go wow your friends.
Ed Thieler
*As you may have gathered, my dad is wicked smahht!! Thanks Ed!
Iceboat Swap Meets! Hard-water Season Begins….
The winter sailing season is coming up fast! If you are interested in getting into iceboating find a swap meet and club meeting near you, pick up some gear and get ready to enjoy the fastest sailing on the planet! Make this the year….
Skeeter Iceboat Club 31st Annual Swap Meet
Sunday, October 30, 2016; 9 to noon, followed by raffle
Lucke’s Cantina, 220 N. Elkhorn Rd. (WI Hwy 67), Williams Bay, WI
For more information, email sailing19
This is the Grand-Daddy of all swap meets. More equipment changes hands at this swap meet than all others combined. There will be Skeeters, Renegades, Arrows, Nites, DN’s and who knows what else. Boat builders and hardware manufacturers will all set up displays. If you want to buy or sell something (or simply shoot the bull!) this is the place to be. All the big names of iceboating show up for this one.Gull Lake Ice Yacht Club Saturday, November 5, 2016 10 AM – 3 PM Gull Lake Country Club, 9725 W Gull Lake Dr, Richland, MI 49083 For more information: https://www.facebook.com/groups/280198766052/
New England Ice Yacht Club Fall Meeting & Swap Meet
Saturday, November 5, 2016 9 AM – Noon
Knights of Columbus Hall, 17 Willow St, Westborough, MA 01581.
For more information: https://theneiya.org/
The swap meet starts at 9AM in the parking lot, lunch and meeting starts at noon in the hall. There will be great door prizes…. Put it on your calendars folks! Start digging out all the gear you want to sell or trade and start making a list of anything you’d like to bring up at the meeting.
Sailcrafters 8th Annual Iceboat Swap Meet
Saturday, November 5, 2016 10 AM- 1 PM
7450 Oxford Street, St. Louis Park, MN 55426
More information: Phone: 952-693-6089 E-Mail: tim
Tim Carlson of Sailcrafters is hosting again. This swap meet is popular with the Minnetonka, White Bear and Bald Eagle sailors. There promises to be lots of DN and Nite equipment along with several complete boats. We may even see a C-Skeeter courtesy of “Drifter.” Anyone looking to upgrade equipment or buy a complete boat is encouraged to attend. This is also the perfect opportunity to talk with Tim about hardware and rigging questions. And, it’s the right time to drop off that sail that needs repair. Email Tim at timChickawaukie Ice Boat Club in Maine
Sunday, November 6, 2016
12 Chretien Rd, Biddeford, ME
For more information https://iceboat.me/
Great follow-up to the NEIYA meeting. Great variety of gear and food at this one!
Lake Ronkonkoma Ice Yacht Club Swap Meet
Saturday, December 10, 2016 1 – 4 pm
Weeks Yacht Yard, 10 Riverview Ct, Patchogue, NY 11772
More information: http://iceboatlongisland.com/
Food and drinks will be supplied by the club free of charge! What else could one ask for?For more information about ice sailing:
North American DN Association http://na.idniyra.org/
Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club, Madison, WI http://iceboat.org/index.htmlNew England Ice Yachting Association https://theneiya.org/
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Swap Meet List- Find one near you!
The winter sailing season is coming up fast! If you are interested in getting into iceboating find a swap meet and club meeting near you, pick up some gear and get ready to enjoy the fastest sailing on the planet! Make this the year no matter where you are….
Skeeter Iceboat Club 31st Annual Swap Meet
Sunday, October 30, 2016; 9 to noon, followed by raffle
Lucke’s Cantina, 220 N. Elkhorn Rd. (WI Hwy 67), Williams Bay, WI
For more information, email sailing19
This is the Grand-Daddy of all swap meets. More equipment changes hands at this swap meet than all others combined. There will be Skeeters, Renegades, Arrows, Nites, DN’s and who knows what else. Boat builders and hardware manufacturers will all set up displays. If you want to buy or sell something (or simply shoot the bull!) this is the place to be. All the big names of iceboating show up for this one.
Gull Lake Ice Yacht Club
Saturday, November 5, 2016 10 AM – 3 PM
Gull Lake Country Club, 9725 W Gull Lake Dr, Richland, MI 49083
For more information: https://www.facebook.com/groups/280198766052/
New England Ice Yacht Club Fall Meeting & Swap Meet
Saturday, November 5, 2016 9 AM – Noon
Knights of Columbus Hall, 17 Willow St, Westborough, MA 01581.
For more information: https://theneiya.org/
The swap meet starts at 9AM in the parking lot, lunch and meeting starts at noon in the hall. There will be great door prizes…. Put it on your calendars folks! Start digging out all the gear you want to sell or trade and start making a list of anything you’d like to bring up at the meeting.
Sailcrafters 8th Annual Iceboat Swap Meet
Saturday, November 5, 2016 10 AM- 1 PM
7450 Oxford Street, St. Louis Park, MN 55426
More information: Phone: 952-693-6089 E-Mail: tim
Tim Carlson of Sailcrafters is hosting again. This swap meet is popular with the Minnetonka, White Bear and Bald Eagle sailors. There promises to be lots of DN and Nite equipment along with several complete boats. We may even see a C-Skeeter courtesy of “Drifter.” Anyone looking to upgrade equipment or buy a complete boat is encouraged to attend. This is also the perfect opportunity to talk with Tim about hardware and rigging questions. And, it’s the right time to drop off that sail that needs repair. Email Tim at tim
Chickawaukie Ice Boat Club in Maine
Sunday, November 6, 2016
12 Chretien Rd, Biddeford, ME
For more information https://iceboat.me/
Great follow-up to the NEIYA meeting. Great variety of gear and food at this one!
Lake Ronkonkoma Ice Yacht Club Swap Meet
Saturday, December 10, 2016 1 – 4 pm
Weeks Yacht Yard, 10 Riverview Ct, Patchogue, NY 11772
More information: http://iceboatlongisland.com/
Food and drinks will be supplied by the club free of charge! What else could one ask for?
For more information about ice sailing:
North American DN Association http://na.idniyra.org/
Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club, Madison, WI http://iceboat.org/index.html
New England Ice Yachting Association https://theneiya.org/
Lessons For The Upcoming Towing Season
Pretty scary what a little weight in the wrong place can do. There will be miles on the road. Let’s all arrive safely and ready to race.
Some comments on the above. http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=177248&hl=&_ga=1.8417397.1359727180.1475575504
Think Ice,
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Deja Vu, Anyone?
Found this photo online…. No idea where or when it was taken but it looks like the gang is having a long slow slog…. Good thing they have the sail up, I’m guessing every bit of help counts given what they are doing-
I’m sure we’ve all spent a bit of time pushing and/or dragging gear around- great exercise but doesn’t exactly peg the fun-meter!
Here’s hoping we don’t have to do much dragging this season- Think ICE!!
Product Adaptation
If you know Dave Fortier you know he spends a lot of time in the shop, fiddling with this, improving that, and modifying the other thing.
Not just iceboat related stuff either- maybe you’ve seen the bridge/tunnel/aqueduct his goldfish have to swim through to get fed. Or his swiveling wood stove. Or the iceboats he’s put together over the years….
Well he is at it again and checks in with his new gizmo for carrying two runners in a three runner bag- Check it out!
I have adapted the 3 blade bag to work with runners that have built in stiffeners. I built the modification out of PVC board, glued together with PVC pipe dope. Thought this might interest some hardwater sailor in the house. Thinking Ice!
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Musto And Iceboating
Hey Folks- Looks like Czech DN-er Vaxlav Hendrych made the Musto catalog- click the link and take a look!
http://www.musto.com/our-world/blog/ice-sailor-vaclav-hendrych
Lake Ronkonkoma Club Swap Meet Is ON
Ralph Hilbert checks in with this bulletin:
I met with Kevin Weeks yesterday and it was agreed that the annual Lake Ronkonkoma Ice Yacht Club Swap Meet will be held on Saturday December 10th from 1 to 4 pm at Weeks Yacht Yard in Patchogue, NY.
Officers meeting at 11am.
Start thinking on what you’ll be needing for the upcoming season and what you want to sell.
As usual food and drinks will be supplied by the club free of charge.
Hope to see many of you there.
Think ICE!
Ralph
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Iceboats And More At Greenport!
Hey Folks- The East End Maritime Festival is in full swing in Greenport, NY, Sept. 23-25.
Scott Valentine has checked in and tells us that there are several ice boats to look at-
Mike Acebo and Co. are out there displaying iceboats and waving the hard-water flag. Not only that but it looks like they are building a boat in front right at the scene- see the photo of Acebo working on Bob Boyle’s new boat!
Also on display are lots of wooden soft-water boats built by local Long Island craftsman.
If you’re still not convinced be advised that the entire down town Greenport is loaded with arts and craft vendors as well as local beers from local breweries! This festival usually attracts 7,000 to 10,000 visitors annually and with the great weather forecast this year should be another good one.
Great time is always a guarantee. Head on out, take a look, see the boats and have a beer with the guys!
All the info you need here-
http://www.eastendmaritimefestival.org/
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