So your a sailor, huh...not until you have sailed one of these...
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That's what you get when you go to Moosehead Lake, Maine in the middle of the winter...
I like the new keel design, shoal draft but goes to windward well with little side slip!!! I'm thinking that our water in VA is too soft to get much use out of this design though
100 mph in 20 knots true wind! I'm in Michigan where these things are common, but never had the guts to try it. And it's way too cold out there.
We park them directly into the wind and there are brakes with spikes that stick into the ice for the front runner.
A bunch of lunatics just raced this past weekend in Madison:
http://iceboat.org/seasons/15-16/niya/index.html
The next best thing then is to go landyachting in a desert, beach, airstrip or parking lot. Amelia Earhart also used this airstrip in Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn...
The sun does come out when we iceboat. It reflects off the ice and the sail. I can sail certain days in a T-shirt since things can warm up pretty fast under the bubble (i.e. canopy). A couple of screams at high speed heats things up as well. A nice hike also raises you closer to the sun...If you guys are sailing on ice you really aren't getting the concept of a sailboat. For no money what so ever you can just go to where the sun is!
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Deuce is the biggest iceboat in the world. It is a stern steerer that is 56 feet long. They don't always stay parked very well and tend to spin around like a top when they get loose. Once it reduced a nearby bubble-boat to splinters...
They sometimes do this at the upwind mark. I stay away from the A stern steerers. They are like runaway trains and creep me out. Occasionally they eject a passenger or two. Never was interested in running one over...
No cops with radar or laser...
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I'm at the 4 minute mark in the 1st video...
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