Now that we’ve been hammered with snow it’s time to get used to the new normal. Here are some tutorials to help you get started.
You’ll need a big steerer with the torque of a locomotive.
You can also use a DN as demonstrated by Denis Guertin as long as the wind holds so you don’t need to slog through the snow dragging your boat home:
And if we get lucky some day and a bit of ice begins to poke through it could be as good as this:
Meanwhile out at the North Americans, the venue has been shifted to Green Lake Wisconsin. Nice ice, snow free, but brutally cold all week. The results will be a question of the survival of the warmest. Our sympathies go out to the Jones brothers of Florida.
Chickawaukie Ice Boat Club 
The big stern steerer “Cold Wave” — now in the Lawrence Family fleet — is currently set up on Orange Lake near Newburgh NY. It is a double cockpit ice yacht — if you observe the first 30 seconds of the video you can see a third person up front, perhaps hauling on the jib sheet, getting blasted in the spray of snow from the runner chocks. You can do this for a day or two after a powdery snowfall but after that the snow starts to bond with the ice surface or the water starts coming up through the cracks and it gets sticky and you can go nowhere. “Cold Wave” was restored by Reuben Snodgrass, a Grumman Aircraft military test pilot, and sailed with his friend Fred Krause. Fred recently passed the boat along to the Lawrence’s to ensure its upkeep and use for the next generations.
We are currently snowed out here in the Hudson Valley — the big storm left 15″ or more across a broad swath east of Lake Erie from NYC to Albany. Boats have been blocked up or moved off the ice until we see what redevelops and where. Red Bank NJ seems like a possibility in a week if it stays cold and snow free — look for their reports towards the end of the week.