We had a number of submissions for a burgee design at the annual meeting last week. We winnowed them down to two, and then chose this one. Any comments before we begin to order patches and flags, hats, beer mugs, coffee cups, etc?
CIBC Logo Final Nov. 13.pdf
Many thanks and tips of the helmet to Denis Geurtin for evolving this design!
Denis is setting a fine example for all of us: showing up on day one with sharp runners:
Looks like about sixteen inches of crown, just about right.
The one thing we miss, those of us with stainless runners, is that satisfying stream of sparks.
A tough job well done. Judging by the proximity of the firewood pile to the grinding operation one might suspect that Denis learned his skill in Lloyd Robert’s garage!
Belt sander available for sharpening in Camden at Iceboat Central, call any time: 975-6980
SWAP MEET NEXT SATURDAY!!
Starter DN. Sarns runners, Raymond composite mast, great sail, nice plank, fuselage a tad on the heavy side. Includes root-top carrier. $1550.oo. Call Fred Wardwell: 342-5570
$490 Two year old North DN storm sail, cut four inches higher at the clew. Includes fiberglass battens, leech and luff telltales and bag. This sail was used only twice. I no longer have a boat that it will fit. Call Scott at 207 446 3918.
Check out New England Ice Yacht Association for more great classifieds and inspiring iceboat deals. For the best deals, of course, come to the Swap Meet Nov. 7, Knights of Columbus Hall, Westboro, MA
Meanwhile, up in Quebec where the first frost has has lit a fire under Denis Guertin and Frank, they are FALL TRAINING Canadian style:
It’s always good to set up the boats before first ice as that to-do list so carefully itemized back in the spring is long gone. Which pin was it that went missing?
Denis and Frank, W-10, W-11, are building new slush runners in Quebec for their Whizz. After the fabulous stretch of spring sailing we had last year they don’t want to risk missing one day. We also had a day early last season when the ice softened and those with slush runners could keep sailing.
The little Shop Bot is cutting profiles from Birch ply, which he’ll then skin with formica. The last set he made had too much rocker and wouldn’t “plane” on the slush.
A nice set of slush runners that Steve Duhamel made has 16″ of camber and work well on both the DN and the Whizz. Paul Zucco, W-7, keeps his slushies as sharp as his plates so he can sail those in the morning of a warming day, and avoid having to go back to the pits to swap runners. A big deal when you’re a long way from home and the ice goes soft.
i can’t wait to see Bill’s new book….the coffee-table book about our 2014 season….if you scan the archives, you’ll see that that’s a good season to start the tradition of making these books every year: that season was absolutely outrageous! Plymouth Pond came in…..then Chickawalkie and Megunticook duked it out as favorites….until queen Darmiscotta played her trump card….and…just as we were thanking our stars: South Twin near Millinocket zapped us…. and then…lightening struck: Moosehead!…. Bill even jetted off to Siberia for ultimate bragging rights…..and I….I heaped my cornpone ever higher on the plates of ice-starved cyber-prisoners…. so, all in all…….it will be interesting to see it in print…..maybe having that book will help with this agrivating two month count-down…
At 74, I’ve been surgically patched-up for another go…..and….since holding a sheet under tension for long periods is part of my challenge, I’m installing a little jam cleat which should give me some shoulder relief….ah aging…..I think of Lloyd trotting his quiet reaches in Cheapskate, in a boat he carries under one arm from the truck….
(Inaugural sail on windless Monmouth)
a quiet prayer comes to my lips: dear Higher Power, please give me serenity with aging….that letting go…..that patience….help me to follow Lloyd’s wise leadership……..but…..but….not quite yet!
sooo….as the weeks tick by, I wonder: can lightning strike again? can this amazing passion somehow be sustained?
if health should hold, in this dying year
we’ll chop the holes, we’ll launch the gear
we’ll do our sit-ups, check our knees
burden gods with hearty pleas
then spread again our borrowed wings
and hear that song
–that wondrous song–
a runner sings!
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