"William Wixon" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"Bob Engelhardt" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:
... iceboats ... sitting in a little open shell, doing 60 mph ...

****, sounds like an opportunity to get yourself really mangled - bones
broken and limbs pointing in funny directions! 'Course that is what
makes it so exciting.

Only if I was much younger ... maybe,
Bob

You wear a helmet. And ice is slippery, if you should get dumped out of
the boat. g

Just don't hit anything. And watch out for those ice-fishing holes.

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Ed Huntress




fascinating article...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_boat

possible speeds of 150(?!!)

Yeah, in the faster Skeeters and the old stern-steerers (I didn't see them
mention that those old-time boats are usually called "Big Boats."). You can
see from the photos of the DNs what I was saying about being stuck out in
the breeze. Think sub-xero temperatures. Think apparent wind speeds three
times faster than the actual wind speed. Think coooold... g

I wonder why the only clubs they listed are in NJ? This isn't exactly an
ice-sailing hotspot these days. Not for most of the last century, in fact.
Global warming, ya' know. g


at the end it mentions iceboating being a possible olympic event in 2012.

ed, you've seen this stuff before, right?

http://home.swipnet.se/ansar/s.html

the video is cool and funny. VERY strange looking thing moving quickly
across a flat white surface. like maybe a very large space insect.

Well, I've tried skate-sailing, but those are a lot higher-tech sails than I
remember. We used something that was just a big kite, which you held onto
with the crossbars. You could go, oh, maybe 20 or 30 mph with them in a
stiff breeze. I'm not excited about the idea of doing 100 mph with a skate
sail.

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Ed Huntress