Six boats showed up for the warm and strong southerly today. Our gateway to the rest of the lake was no longer passable so we set up marks in the south bay and duked it out. Second Island as the bottom mark and a bough near the pits at the top. We welcomed our Canadian pal Denis Guertin for his first sail of the year. Jim Gagnon, Bryce Geel, Linc Davis and Jos VanDyke rounded out the fleet.

Linc missed the line up shot. The wind became light and shifty in the afternoon but on a small plate of ice that was fine. The snow patches began to stiffen and became a strategic element in our low speed duels.

Boats are on the ice and plan to sail tomorrow. It’ll be the last day before the rain. Next possibility appears to be Pushaw on Monday.

This patch of ice takes on an abstract expressionism look. It went on like this for about fifty feet. Amazing.