Author Archives: Lloyd Roberts

Two Cheapskates and two DN’s sailed Great Bay on Thursday. Maybe 2 inches of dry loose snow, fresh, sometime fresh plus West wind. The snow had no apparent effect on sailing except to quiet already often silent ice. In wind … Continue reading →

There is a zig zag crack 6-8 inches wide and 2-3 inches deep down to thinner ice (recently frozen water) across the South end of Great bay on Damariscotta. If the recent snow drifts and fills this crack it could … Continue reading →

There was wet grey and white slush on an initially firm base. The white is where the prior snow drifted a bit, none of it reached up to the Cheapskate runner body. There was no styrofoam. I sailed silently in … Continue reading →

Damariscotta Saturday Jan 21, gentle AM breeze forecast could just be felt. Exhaled breath barely condensed and hardly moved, Temp. 41 in Union. The snow is fine, damp, soft, loose, cornmeal, a scant inch deep. We hope for better wind … Continue reading →

Bill Bunting reports at noon Friday that there is 1 1/2 inches of dense snow lying on but not attached to the ice surface. He can make snow balls of it, it is not styrofoam. “It would be sailable if … Continue reading →