Category Archives: 2024 Season

We will have our fall meeting/pot luck lunch a little later this year, on Saturday, Nov. 14. The NEIYA Swap Meet and Meeting will be held the next day, Sunday, Nov.15. We like to schedule these meetings on the same … Continue reading →

Beating The Flyer by Thomas B. Hallock as told to Tay Hohoff Sports Illustrated January 2, 1956 There was a month or so most years, back in the last century, when the people in the Hudson River Valley were isolated, … Continue reading →

In 1956 Sports Illustrated located and interviewed one of the survivors of the iconic race between train and ice yacht immortalized by Currier and Ives. Here is his story.

I met Lloyd when built my first Iceboat, a DN. And DNs are all about racing, so that was when I found the Chickawaukee Ice Boat Club. We raced almost every weekend, we had many named races, and if one … Continue reading →

Thanks to everyone who sent their kind remembrances of Lloyd Roberts. Without a question iceboating would be nowhere near the success is it today in Maine without him. I met Lloyd on Chickie when I was a skate sailor. The … Continue reading →