Among other things on the Feb 9 show, we will be talking about hard water sailing and where you can see it when. We will post the information here after the show. In the meantime here are some pix.  a.s.

Feb. 18  Here is the phone number for current conditions and locations for iceboating in midcoast Maine  594-2184    Google maine ice sailors for more information.   Richard Saltonstall sent pix of an unusal fwd cockpit boat he designed and built himself.  He calls it blackfly.  Thanks Richard.  a.s.

March 2010.   Here are some more iceboat pix.  Too late to see them this season, but check out the phone number above next season and you can see them for yourself and probably make some fast friends.  a.s.

Checking out a pressure ridge on early ice at UnityPond, Dec 09.  Finding ice of this quality between snowstorms requires spies on every lake.   Bill Buchholz

Lake Winnepesaukee, Feb 10.  Best ice in a generation.  Smooth as marble for miles.  R. Saltonstall

Starting line at NE Championships on Sebago Lake a few years ago.  Herreschoff designed and built 1928 “Slipper” in foreground.  R. Saltonstall