Category Archives: 2017 Season

We’ve received word that Fred Kircheis had a stroke in his sleep early Thursday morning. No news on his situation, but our thoughts are with Fred and his family, and wishes for s full recovery. Iceboating buddy Bruce Brown is … Continue reading →

Take a break from the stress of election coverage and gaze upon this pastoral. Then take yourself quietly to bed, carrying the image carefully in your cerebral cortex. You will have a wonderfully peaceful night’s sleep dreaming ice. This was … Continue reading →

We had a good turnout of 20 members from newbies just about to build to our senior member Fred Wardwell who says he has been iceboating for 89 years starting as a small child. New member Ryan Haskell and his … Continue reading →

He’s getting warmed up! ODE TO NOVEMBER It’s early November, the leaves are half down Some folks have the blues, some soon will leave town But an iceman’s keen memory brings up the years when–against all the odds–this month banished … Continue reading →

Tom Hysop reminisces after the recent death of Bill Perrigo, iceboating legend: When it came to ice boating, family patriarch Bill ‘Curley’ Perrigo was definitely what you would call ‘old school’. I remember seeing him on the ice at the … Continue reading →