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This morning at eleven thirty Lee Spiller sent this: He reports: “Pretty darn good here on Sabattus. 4″ hard smooth grey ice.” So, to answer Lloyd’s earlier question: SABATTUS it will be. A small gang of MIT students will be … Continue reading →

Bad news from Plymouth today: it froze before the last snow storm and now is covered in white. With dropping temps throughout the coming week it will not recover. But the cold may begin to work on other local lakes. … Continue reading →

While we were were being good boys and staying close to home over Christmas, Denis Guertin took his family to the ice and managed to snatch another fantastic bit of sailing from Lac Joli. Since last week when the Yankees … Continue reading →

It’s been a long day, and I forgot to include an observation we should all keep in mind. Saturday the ice was five inches thick and fairly uniform. There were no holes or cracks, but there were small mounds of … Continue reading →

As we have all learned the hard way, the best of ice forecasts can be so easily be rendered asunder by mirthful greater power. So even as conditions weren’t quite right for a regatta, we scratch raced and generally tore … Continue reading →