Category Archives: 2024 Season

A PRIMER FOR THE NEW ICE SAILOR and A REVIEW FOR THE REST OF US FORWARD We use the term ice sailors to include the whole community of those who sail on the ice. There seem to be more non … Continue reading →

Passed club member John Eastman had two iceboats: Lloyd Roberts Gambit #1, and a bright finished Meade single seater skeeter. The Meade was in a typical home made iceboat trailer, long box style, painted red. The Gambit often rode on … Continue reading →

A few days ago at five AM Eastern DNer’s Roseberry and Chamberland rolled into Starbuck, MN. and found the ice of Lake Minnewaska, proposed site of the Great Western Challenge this weekend. Their eyes were blurry, above, but the ice … Continue reading →

The pond has just under two inches of black ice this afternoon. Some lakes in the region kept the Thanksgiving snow and turned it into snow ice. But this stuff is clear, hard and beautiful. The way it’s been growing, … Continue reading →

In addition to all the thankfulness we’ve been expressing all weekend, we can now be thankful for black ice. Tolman Pond was skimmed over today. Tolman has long been used by nearby iceboaters as a proxy for Plymouth, which appears … Continue reading →