iceboating.net Minnesota Ice Sailing Association

Let me introduce myself, my name is Mike Shepherd, and I am a conventional (soft water) sailor from Australia. I have been sailing various types of boats all my life, everything from small training dinghies, various forms of skiffs including the aussie 18, and high performance offshore yachts.
I thought I had just about seen it all when it came to performance under sail, how wrong I was!!
For a long time now I have heard little bits about a mysterious breed of sailing machine called ice boats, but unfortunately, due to geographic problems, have never had the opportunity to see them in the flesh.

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Hi all, Mike the Australian here. I met a few of you guys up at Battle lake last weekend, and am wondering if there is anything going on this weekend? Still very keen to try ice boating, hope the conditions are better suited. If anyone knows of anything, or has a spare boat they could let me have a try in, please contact me at shep4031@yahoo.com cheers, Mike.

Jack, Can you call me again on the arrow, lost your number mine is 440-396-3051 Rob

Anyone out there with an Air Iceboat? Thanks

GOT ON THE ICE AT GEORGETOWN ON 11/26. WALLY HALL (ICEFLYER) & MYSELF KONR BEETCH (NITE 470). PERFECT MIRROR ROCK STAR ICE WITH EXCELLENT MODERATE TO A BIT GUSTY WINDS. TYPICAL 180 DEGREE WIND SHIFTS. NOT A BAD OPENING DAY FOR THE TWO OF US. KONR

so got this really cool video put together from all the footage I got in Buffalo a few years ago.
How can I post it here?
I looked at the post video instructions and it didn't quite help me out.
Perhaps I am merely a tech moron. Ormaybe it really doesn't work so well. Someone hook me up. Help me Help you........

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Home-made "Family Fun" iceboat
Lateen sail rig forward steerer
Sturdy and reliable
Single person cockpit but sailable with up to 4 "passengers" sitting on the outriggers
$450 OBO
Must pick up in Naperville, IL
email: edoc02@pol.net

Hi All,

It is time to take my DN Iceboat KC3772 'Across the Universe' off the wall...It has been parked there for 20 yrs ! ! ! (Makes a nice bookshelf !)

Hoping for some good ice conditions this winter.( Hamilton Bay, Trenton, etc...)

Can anyone help me in finding some iceboaters near me? Any contacts?

I get an adrenaline rush just thinking of a great day on the ice...

I am enjoying this website. Thanks.

Dave'crosscheck'Fallowfield
DN KC3772
Oakville, Ont. Canada
www.dfallowfield@cogeco.ca

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15 October 2005
FOR SALE:
Beautiful Nite two seat ice boat, hull number 341. Very nice condition, Bikini Blue color, with all of the following package items:
♦ Hull number 341.
♦ Sail # 341, re-tuned by Doyal Sails in 2004.
♦ Custom cockpit cover support.
♦ Original two place plank with chocks.
♦ Custom 150 lb/in laminated Ash and Basswood strip plank for solo sailing
♦ Updated track block system.
♦ Custom “Nite Time” Graphics.
♦ Standard Sarns runners in excellent condition.
♦ 3 sheet ropes.
♦ Full set of covers for sail, hull, mast, plank and springboard.

Dear Friends,

these days, those of us, who haven’t been for long in this sport learned more about the good old times of Iceboating and the guys, who introduced it to Europe. Skip and his Family hosted and sponsored Iceboaters from the US and Europe for all their life. e.g. Andreas Bock G 624 got all the support in sails from Skip and so did last winter 19 Year old Merili Randmaa C46 from Estonia. She won the silver qualifier with a sponsored sail from Skip. Being that successful in Madison she got offered one of very few 470 boats to race with and became a few weeks ago the Junior World Champion in this class. She’ll never forget Skip and she was amazed by his knowledge about sails and how he put it into cloth.

Skip Boston, DN US 150, passed away during the night of August 15, 2005.

Have you ever thought of building an ice boat from scratch, including the design? Well here it is, three years in the making and finally on the work bench. What started out to be a light weight one seat Nite, evolved into a new design, ultra light, C-Skeeter. Many thanks go out to Bob Gray for his countless hours of designing and meticulous planning, and to Skip Stauber and Jack Jacobs for there knowledge and input.

Hopefully everything will go as planned and the as yet un-named GX-1 will have its maiden voyage at the North Westerns in early December, or locally if we have early ice in the Traverse City (MI) area.

A week ago a few of us visited Dan Hearn here in Madison to talk about building the 4-Lakes Jr. Iceboating Program. While we were there we got to see Dan's building jig. He designed it to be flexible enough to loft and build both full-size DNs and the Opti-DNs (or ice-Optis, if you prefer):
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After seeing his setup Byron Tetzlaff and I decided it was the way to go for our building plans. We may be building slightly different sized boats (min/max length, different cockpit widths, maybe even an Opti), so the flexibility of Dan's setup of screw-down blocks seemed ideal.