Author Archives: billbuchholz

The surface is pretty good considering all the abuse it endured over the course of this snowy winter. There is 13” of ice, a couple of inches of which is currently slush. The temps tonight are due to drop into … Continue reading →

More than one person has asked about alignment techniques recently and if you look at who’s coming sailing these days, it is lots of new helmets and goggles. Lloyd Roberts taught us all to use the dial indicator on a … Continue reading →

Here is a great picture from the glory days on the Hudson demonstrating what happens when your runners are too tight in the chock and you go up in a hike. They say runners should be just tight enough such … Continue reading →

Vannah Rd at Danmariscotta Lake has 16” near the ramp and a surface that will recover rough. but very sailable. The four inches of slush is firm, not too wet. A footprint barely registers. It probably won’t be ready before … Continue reading →

The other day on MDI, the island guys found a small section of Echo Lake that had gone through a decent recovery. Dan Stillman tess us: "Mike Young called Jim Turner and me after spotting an acre or two of … Continue reading →