Chickawaukie Ice Boat Club

Three of us sailed Dammy Friday Jan 31, Doug Raymond, Bill Bunting and your scribe. The ice was definitely bumpy but the bumps seemed less obnoxious than two days ago on Chickawaukee, they must have sublimed (evaporated, solid to gas). The forecast heavy air came in predawn and wind was pleasant and decreasing as the day progressed. Doug found that driving his DN hard was unpleasant in the morning. By afternoon there were down periods of light to little air. We had a fine time weaving about to stay on smooth patches. We have raced on worse in past years. It is sailable and we will return Saturday. “Damariscotta Farm” is not labeled as such any more, it is a meadow edged with cabins with a sign “Damariscotta Watershed Association”. The meadow is about 50 yards West of the intersection of Rte 32 and Rte 126 on the NW edge of “great bay”, the largest body of water on the lake. You can see the ice from the road.

If you don’t want to drive 6+ hours to Plattsburgh and would rather sail than twiddle your thumbs come join us. We will give you a sail in CIBC’s economy iceboat project “Cheapskate”, a “Sunfish” rig on a minimum lumber yard frame, it works and is fun.

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I did drive by’s of smaller ponds we have sailed or skated on on in mid coast area in past.

Mace’s Pond, Rocky, & Tolman Pond, Rockport. South Pond & North Pond, Warren. Pemaquid, (both ends) & Biscay Ponds, Waldonoro and Damariscotta. All have varying degrees of Small Pox with extensive scab formation. South Pond was the worst with a maze of petrified snow mobile tracks. Pemaquid had a narrow band of smooth ice on the far South East shore across from the public launch ramp off Rte 1 featuring a solitary skater. The North end of Chicky here is the best of the bunch, maybe 200X300 yards of widely scattered scabs providing a play pen for learning how to sail the “Cheapskate” which was enjoyable enough to repeat, at least I left the boat on the ice. It looks like Walker is the place to be or maybe Eagle Lake on Mt. Desert, any spies there these days? No wind yesterday anyway.

Iceman

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I did drive by’s of smaller ponds we have sailed or skated on on in mid coast area in past.

Mace’s Pond, Rocky, & Tolman Pond, Rockport. South Pond & North Pond, Warren. Pemaquid, (both ends) & Biscay Ponds, Waldonoro and Damariscotta. All have varying degrees of Small Pox with extensive scab formation. South Pond was the worst with a maze of petrified snow mobile tracks. Pemaquid had a narrow band of smooth ice on the far South East shore across from the public launch ramp off Rte 1 featuring a solitary skater. The North end of Chicky here is the best of the bunch, maybe 200X300 yards of widely scattered scabs providing a play pen for learning how to sail the “Cheapskate” which was enjoyable enough to repeat, at least I left the boat on the ice. It looks like Walker is the place to be or maybe Eagle Lake on Mt. Desert, any spies there these days? No wind yesterday anyway.

Iceman

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