Chickawaukie Ice Boat Club

The mind is half froze and wind blown…

Note the special guest from Quebec! About the ice, all the sailable plate is just like this.

There is great ice popping up everywhere across New England, but on our little plate of heaven there is no space for disappointment. Aside from the large inland sea of soft water it is full speed everywhere. The river is in exceptionally good shape. Eight boats are on the ice now; the forecast for tomorrow is excellent. For that matter, the forecast is great until next Monday! What did we do to deserve this?

First a quick note that ice is good on MDI. Contact Michael Young for details: michaelyoungswh

Out west:

(CNN)At least 34 people were rescued on Saturday after being stranded on a large chunk of floating ice off the shore of Point Comfort on Green Bay, according to the Brown County Sheriff’s Office in Wisconsin.

At about 10:15 a.m., Brown County received a report that a large chunk of ice had broken from the shoreline off Point Comfort and that there were multiple people stranded on it, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.
In less than two hours, all the people who were stranded on the floating ice were rescued with no injuries.

“It is believed a barge that had gone through the Bay shortly before the ice breakage may have contributed to the destabilization of the ice,” the sheriff’s office said.

The floating ice chunk was about a mile from shore by the end of the rescue and had floated about three quarters of a mile during the rescue, the sheriff’s office said.

“Although the chunk of ice remained fairly stable, its condition was deteriorating rapidly (and) cracking up as it moved with the open water pounding at the edge of it,” the office added.

Shane Nelson told CNN affiliate WLUK he and Robert Verhagen had been out ice fishing for the first time when they heard a loud noise.
“It sounded like almost somebody fired a gun out there,” Nelson said. “We thought it was interesting. We got out of our shanty, looked and … a couple people were yelling that the ice was separating.”

CNN’s Laura James and Eric Levenson contributed to this report.

Five inches of perfectly recovered ice all the way to the north end of Muscongus Bay, where you’ll see a large area of open water. Deep Cove is good, as is the River down to the first turn.

Very cold tomorrow, come prepared, but do come. Ice is easily grade 9.25.

Please note Jim’s guidance on the parking in the previous post. Just on the lake side, and as close to the edge as you can. Even better, park in the wider part close to the railway tracks once you are un-loaded.

Looks like the boys found some ice! After yesterdays rain we have located the place to be.
5” of really good ice on the lower section of Damariscotta, launch is at Vannah Rd.
Two boats are sailing today and more expected tomorrow, and on until the weather shuts us out. The plate has been skated some open water located but plenty of sailable ice. This should only get better with age.
There are some new parking restrictions. At the launch please respect the new signs and parking restrictions painted on the road. Or expect to be towed, apparently there were some problems last summer and we’re not sure what to expect for the winter. See you there!

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