Find them at the annual boats and parts Swap Meet and New England Ice yacht Association lunch and meeting Saturday November 2. Buying and selling in the parking lot all morning, lunch at noon followed by the business meeting.
Hudson-Concord Elks Hall
99 Park Street, Hudson, MA 01749
The CIBC fall meeting will be the following day, Sunday Nov. 3 at Dave Fortier’s house in Biddeford, ME. Meeting starts at 11:am followed by a potluck lunch and still more discussion of iceboats and sailing!
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Steve Duhamel of NorthWind IceBoats sends in this slighty-less-than-accurate description of his latest barn-find…. Read and learn…. Barn / Shed Find DN
Late 30’s style DN Closely built to DN 60 Plans as published by the Detroit News Sunday addition projects to build at home work shop.
Great care of construction details were exercised in following the plan’s measurements.
Hardware is all Blacksmith formed.
Hemp rope rigging and sheet line was produced by the Cortege Park in Plymouth MA just before shutting down for good in 1939.
Sail material is Egyptian Cotton with corn starch sizing and black silk reinforcement.
Battens are slow growth Vietnamese bamboo foam core fiberglass.
Blades are forged from used horse shoes. Glue is suspected to be from that same horse that donated the blade material.
While walking in the woods one day, looking for a suitable mast. A bolt of lightning came out of nowhere and struck a nice straight wing shaped tree. Although burned black by the lightning strike, it proved to be just what the project needed. A branch from the same tree provided the boom.
Pulleys (from the sliding barn door from which the boat was pulled) were the only parts from the original design drawings.
Ready to be enjoyed again after a sympathetic cleaning.
Offers will be considered.
Steve’s description is amusing (who knew he had that sense of humor) and is even more so if you’ve ever seen this boat- It’s not a legal DN as it is made of carbon and God only knows what else. But is it ever sexy. If there is a piece of metal, it’s polished to a mirror finish. If there is a piece of carbon (ie the entire hull), it’s clear-coated to perfection. The sail is high aspect, high tech, and this thing is ready to blaze across the ice and elicit some serious drooling in the launch area.
I don’t know if he really wants to sell it or not but it can’t hurt to ask!
Contact Steve through http://www.northwindiceboats.com/ to take a look and for all of your iceboating needs!
If you didn’t sharpen runners in the spring, and oil them for the summer, fall is here and time is running out. Here’s a good reason to have sharp runners:
You just never know…
Not everyone takes to it:
Better luck next time, Al!
With today being the last day of Summer, if you have not started thinking about Ice boating then the time has come. The NEIYA Annual Meeting Swap Meet and Luncheon will be on Saturday, November 2, 2019, in Hudson MA. Remember the new venue, same as last year. Parking lot activities generally begin around 10 am with lunch at noon. The full schedule of activities will be released in a couple weeks.
Hudson-Concord Elks Hall
99 Park Street, Hudson, MA 01749
And as always, The CIBC Fall Meeting will be at Dave Fortier’s house in Biddeford, Maine, Sunday November 3. Meeting at 11:00 sharp and fabulous pot luck lunch to follow.
Here’s a Scooter reported to be in excellent condition. Great deal to the right home.
> On-the-Edge, Sail No 808.
> Built 1962 by W H Harless.
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> Ian McColough
> 917-826-1213
Mike Acebo has finished his Mini Skeeter with a DN rig. It puts it in the class of the small BDX boats. Watch out, Kate!
The standard MS ends right behind the seat, so Mike added a stern so there was a place to mount the sheet blocks. Aside from that, the mast step and plank are are same distance from each other as the DN.
Mike now will focus full time on the C Skeeter build so it’s ready for the ISA in January.
