First Sail 2018--I'm Ready!!!

[Vipersdad]

I am ready for a first sail in 2018.  It won't be in my 19-II but a vintage "Polar Bear 10 Meter".  This boat was built in Toledo, Ohio, in 1953.

V.

[Finbar Beagle]

Viper,  looking good.  In Red Bank NJ there is an "active" ice boat club.  I think they've only had a few days of good ice in last few years.  I see ice boats, and a few ice yachts for sale, but climate change needs to start moving the other way, or this tradition will be dead here.  It was very popular in the 70's on the Naversink river, when I was learning as a kid to sail.

I don't want to get political, and think myself "green friendly", but  I guess we have been warming since the last mini ice age, in 1777-81. 

Wear a good helmet for that hard water...

[Vipersdad]

No Politics Please.

For those of you curious about iceboating here is a link:

www.iceboat.org

[wes]

If you ever find yourself in the Hudson Valley with an hour or two to spare, this charming museum has a really cool exhibit of the beautiful hand-crafted wooden iceboats that the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and Astors used to wheel out and race when the river froze solid. Holiday fun for billionaires! Scary fast too, even faster than carbon fiber foiling AC45 catamarans.

http://www.hrmm.org/

[Vipersdad]

If you ever find yourself in the Hudson Valley with an hour or two to spare, this charming museum has a really cool exhibit of the beautiful hand-crafted wooden iceboats that the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and Astors used to wheel out and race when the river froze solid. Holiday fun for billionaires! Scary fast too, even faster than carbon fiber foiling AC45 catamarans.

http://www.hrmm.org/

Thanks Wes.

Here is a very nice modern video of historic stern steerers on the Hudson.  With a band !!!

https://youtu.be/pRU1o54A_Uo