Chickawaukie Ice Boat Club

Tucked up alongside Moosehead lake is First Roach Pond. Michael Young is there and reports that this is how it looks today:

Now that we have your attention, here’s the scoop on the Tuneup Clinic this coming weekend:

If you have any interest in iceboating this is the place to be on the 20th. You may have seen us on some frozen lake in New England and always wanted to try it. Maybe you are tired of frostbiting and looking for drier winter sailing? Maybe read about it on Scuttlebutt Sailing News and promised yourself that this is the year you get into iceboating. Drag that iceboat out of the rafters and bring it down for a survey and help in getting it ice-worthy. The iceboating welcome mat is out. Come on down.

Whatever your interest level, show up and let’s get you started.

Date: Saturday, November 20th
Time: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Location: Arthur C. Lamb Company 85 Jackson St, Canton, MA 02021
Refreshments: Served continuously throughout the day
Google Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/3zuJS2G2Nm3BwLYs5

We have a full schedule of events but want to focus on the new iceboaters. Especially those that are struggling to figure it all out and get themselves and their boats on the ice for the first time. Calling all Newbies: here is your chance to have even the questions you didn’t know to ask answered. Bring your boats down to be surveyed by a collective of maybe 1000 years of iceboating experience.

Other happenings during the day

• Paul Zucco – Demonstrating plank construction techniques
• James “T” Thieler – Right of Way Rules
• Bob Haag – Metallurgy the science behind our runners in laymens terms
• Multiple People – Runner chock alignment techniques
• TBD – Runner Care
• Ice checking Round Table Discussions

If you have anything to sell be sure it is listed on the Classified Section. Next Saturday is a great opportunity to meet up with potential buyers and sellers. Let people know an item can be delivered to the tune-Up.

Iceboaters are a cultured lot, so if a book and opera entitled ICE comes out how can we resist? Even better that it comes from Finland.

ICE by Ulla-Lena Lundberg: A Three-Part Series – Finlandia Foundation National

The book is based on the life of the author as a young girl, moving in the fifties to an out island in the Finnish archipelago with her family. Ice plays a major part in the story, as it does with our own stories for many months of the year. And the drama we endure is no less than that of the most compelling opera.

This is a three part presentation. The first is an interview with the author, then a discussion with the composer, and lastly the opera itself.

Perhaps the Fat Lady will not only sing us out of the season, but this year in as well. Enjoy!

There’s been frost in recent mornings here on the coast of Maine. The rain barrel has skimmed over twice and whisps of sea smoke have been drifting over the lake at dawn. Traditionally, the first week in December is opening day on Plymouth Pond, but we all know how that can go.
JR Pepper sent in an interesting link to a small firm in Alaska building Nordic skates. They look nice: Meet the A100 – An Alaska-made Nordic skate by Ermine Skate

At Horseback Beach, RI, the BloKart gang held a regatta this weekend. Our own Henry Cataposto and Karen Binder scored the event, and a few notable iceboaters took part. Mike Dinning made this great video with his 360 GoPro: https://youtu.be/0qKIxhd9RSw

The previous post slipped out with no price. Trailer with complete DN $1975.00

And the link at the end is a teaser from two years ago on Pushaw. Enjoy.

It might be on the other side of the Covid Curtain, which is finally being drawn back, but it’s getting cold. This beautiful picture from Ste. Aurelie was sent in yesterday by Denis Guertin. That’s the charming little village where lacs Abenakis and Joli have given us so much early season joy.

Now Denis has scouted another lake, a bit closer for us but still high enough to chill early. It’s called Lac Drolet and features a hotel and restaurant right on the water. The lake is about a mile wide by two long and oriented nicely NW-SE with the requisite island.

Here are the border crossing requirements as we understand them now, as explained to Denis by a custome official at the boder:

US Citizens: You need to be fully vaccinated to cross the canadian border. In addition to that, you need to present a negative result to a PCR test that you passed less than 72 hours ago. And finally, you need to register on the mobile App or website «ArriveCan» which will give the Canadian customs all the information they need before you get to the customs. Then, once you are in Canada, you can stay as long as you want and you don’t need to be tested again to go back in USA because the US gov. doesn’t require the PCR test to cross the border.

Canadian Citizens: We need to be fully vaccinated to cross the US border. We do not need to present a negative result to a PCR test because the US gov. doesn’t require the PCR test to cross the US border. But we need to be tested less than 72 hours ago to come back in Canada!!! So, I can be tested here, let’s say on Monday morning, get my result on the same day (hopefully), cross the border on Tuesday morning, stay overnight, and I have to come back on Wednesday night (well, before Thursday morning which is 72 hours after my test). If I stay longer than 2 days, then I have to be tested in the USA to be able to cross the canadian border. Stupid test !!! And I also have to register on «ArriveCan».