Chickawaukie Ice Boat Club

CIBC and NEIYA will share the ample Sebago ice for DN regattas this weekend. Which title contest which day to be determined by Dave Fortier and Steve Madden.

Launch site Nason’s Beach at about the middle of the West bank of the lake.

Plenty of drive on ice along the beach for vehicles and trailers.

The hard core will be arriving to sail on afternoon Friday. Good weather forecast with “seasonal temperatures” in 30’s, likely wind, and only small chance of showers.

We have thought ice. It is here.

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Just in case you haven’t had enough of the coverage, have a look at this video: breathtaking!

http://youtu.be/pRU1o54A_Uo

Thanks to John Henry Low for sending it in.

There may be a break in this listless pool of lazy cold Canadian air Wednesday afternoon, forecast at 10. Might be last chance before Sebago migration on Friday. Thursday unknown.

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Where have we been while Sebago was sneaking up on us? The ice is there, how long has it been there? No one seems to know but it is thick enough to park on at Nason’s Beach and form pressure ridges, and it is 10 below here in Rockport Tuesday AM. Winds for the next three days in the belly of this cold Canadian high are forecast as gentle. There is even nothing awful in the tea leaves for the weekend. Sooo.

Commodore Fortier proposes racing DN’s on Sebago for those not going down to the Hudson river to feast their eyes on antiques. The not recently raced trophy for the “Sebago Open” is on deck and the Maine Championship beckons as well. Launching at Nason’s Beach on the West shore of Sebago about half way up. See reports below to whet your appetite. Wind forecasts are out of focus for the weekend but to quote the late ice bard, Larry Hardman, “Ice Will Suffice”. See you on the ice gentlemen, details to follow.

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Do you see the iceboat? Yea, it’s just like that. And with today’s wind the photographer could have jumped back into his boat, hauled the sheet, and fell in with the distant spec in less than a minute. It was that kind of day. Go anywhere you want as fast as you felt like. And all of us felt like going just as fast and as far as we could. The plate has areas of thin bonded snow defined by wide lanes of excellent ice. With the 10-15kt breeze today one could sail through the snowy spots, but with all the available ice it was much more fun to tour the avenues.

Once across the pressure ridge just off Nason’s Beach, the next north-south ridge is about half way to Frye Island, making gradually off the the east before levelling out at the Dingly Islands. Just south of Nason’s in an east-west ridge with poorer ice to the south of it.

Seven people showed up: Don Stern is back after a sabbatical, Dennis Glidden, Curtis Rindlaub, Dave Fortier, Lee Spiller and Karin. Dave has plans to host a regatta here this coming weekend, so stand by for updates.

Attemping a line-up during a light-air down wind tour between the E-W ridge and a field of snow. Oddly for the NW wind, it started out light, 5-8, and built as the day went on. On the drive home flags were sharp all at attention.

Dave wants to send lots of love to whomever it is that designed the Super DN. The Orange boat was feeling his oats today and actually caused Whizzard to break a sweat more than once…