I recall when I when I built my first Gougeon wedge DN iceboat in 1988 or so. Racing was what we did for the most part. The CIBC had these competitions:

Linc Davis

Maine State Championship

Commodores Cup

Sebago Open

NE Spring Classic

I have been attempting to collect the years that these were raced, with the results. I have much of them on paper just so we have the history recorded somehow. John Stanton and I attempted to get the results that I collected onto our iceboat.me website, but we lost the transferred data the first time, so I plan to try again especially if others communicate to me that it matters. I suppose that most will be thinking who cares? But we will see, some members may care and let me know.

The reason I started this is that we do have ice, and we have not had a race this season. The Linc Davis is traditionally the first race, on the first race ready ice. We have a large sheet of black ice on Sebago Lake, and I believe the last Sebago Open was raced in 2015, and won by Bill Bucholz, so we know where that trophy is. The last Maine State Championship was 2017, and I happen to have that baby on my shelf. 

So, all you DN racer types, please communicate and let me know if racing on Sebago sounds as good to you as it does to me. I plan to head out tomorrow and see how the access is at Nason’s beach.

Dave, 4690