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Ice boating

legalskier

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Looks like it's a good year for ice boating.

"This week, the ice just north of the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge has hosted an ice-boat revival of the likes that hasn't been seen in a century. On March 1 and 2, an impromptu festival popped up on the river, with scores of people, dozens of ice boats, dogs and campfires and a brass band all on the ice. The stars of the show were two 50-foot-tall one-ton ice boats called the Jack Frost and the Rocket, which hadn't shared the ice together since the early 1900s"
Article, with slide show: www.watershedpost.com/2014/upside-freeze-ice-boating

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Anyone ever go ice boating? I got to ride in one when I was little- I remember how bumpy, windy and cold it was, but also a lot of fun.
 

bigbog

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Have never ice boat. Most all the larger lakes in the NE...Winnipesaukee, Moosehead, Sebago, Mooselookmeguntic?...all can be found on web... Those are BIG boats...almost yachts on ice....
 
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