Chickawaukie Ice Boat Club

Neil Betts: nbetts@neo.rr.com

Four place enclosed iceboat trailer, can carry four boats up to 18 feet, has slide in compartments for masts, planks and sails, extra storage area for runners and extra parts. Brakes on all four wheels, tires have 90% tread. Barn style doors on rear for easy unloading and loading, slide out/slide in. Two side doors for easy access to storage area.

Located in NE Ohio, more pictures available. $2600 Ph. 330-240-2271 NBetts

DON’T FORGET THE SWAP MEET NOVEMBER 3! GET ALL KINDS OF GREAT STUFF TO FILL UP YOUR NEW TRAILER! THIS IS A GREAT BUY!

Most of us should have received the new newsletter by now, those who are paid-up CIBC members. Curtis has done a terrific job as new secretary filing Lloyd’s shoes (size 13, by the way). As we age, however, names become nebulous. Lloyd tells us in his interview that Tom Watson was a founding member of the club along with Warner St.Clair. Actually, it was Mr. Watson’s yacht captain Paul Wolter who was the hard driving DN sailor who always said: “if we are sailing, we are racing!”. He was very charismatic, a great story teller and a fantastic sailor. Tom Watson was too busy for iceboating at the time, founding and running a little company called IBM.
In a nice little twist, one of the Watson family’s skippers today is the son of Maine Nite sailor Bob Norton, Derek Norton. He’s hoping to get his Dad’s boat back on the ice this winter. That boat, along with the one for sale here at Iceboat Central (975-6980) will give us five Nites in Maine and the potential hold the first ever Nite Eastern Regional Championship Regatta. Step Up!

As is tradition in the CIBC, our annual fall meeting will be held Sunday, Nov. 4, hosted by Dave Fortier at his place. The meeting will start at 11:00am promptly with an excellent pot luck lunch to follow. Discussing iceboats will continue throughout the afternoon. Please bring something scrumptious to add to the table. #12 Cretian Rd., Biddiford, ME 04005

While you’re waiting, here’s some food for ice-thinking:

If you need a diversion of another sort-something with a tingle in it when you want a tingle or peace when your soul cries out for peace- something that carries with it constant change and endless variety, what you want is iceboating; what you ought to have is an iceboat. And now is the time to begin looking for one if you hope to be clear headed and ready for winter.

You will experience what no other sport with the possible exception of hunting, can produce- that feeling of utter detachment form a drab and dusty world that comes when black ice is all around you. You will find your spine a-tingle when you have beneath you a lean lovely thing of wood and snowy canvas above, racing along the frozen lake, ice chips parting under the deft touch of sharpened steel, going where you want her to go, leaping to your touch and trusting your skill as a fresh breeze whistles out of an indigo sky.

Adapted from G.K Seagrove