Notice of Dues: Get The Card

by | Sep 29, 2022 | 2022-2023, Home Page

A Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club Notice of Dues postcard should have recently arrived in mailboxes. Please consider joining and supporting the 4LIYC. Your membership helps us maintain our ATV and equipment and keeps this website running. You’ll get this cool membership card to flash around at any yacht club featuring Joe Berger’s fast photo of Nite sailor Don Sanford sailing lifting a runner Lake Monona last season.
Download, print, and mail a membership form here.

SOLD! September 9, 2022: Skeeter in MN

by | Sep 28, 2022 | Sold, sold-1

SOLD! Class A Skeeter built at the Mattison shop in Madison, WI. (Paul Krueger believes it may be an original RAMBLN’ boat)  Complete and ready to sail. Kevlar sail by Quantum with under 50 hours of sailing. Stainless fore and side stays have 5-10 hours. In very good shape but could use new paint. Steel roll bar. Used lightly last 10 years for cruising only. Stored indoors during the off-season. Will consider trade for Nite.
Southwest Minnesota.
PRICE REDUCED: $1500
$2800

 

Everything You Want to Know About Rear-Seat Skeeters

by | Sep 26, 2022 | 2022-2023, Home Page, ISA


Bill Mattison wrote this article for Yacht Racing and Cruising magazine in 1981 in the heyday of the rear-seat Class A Skeeter, a few years before the dawn of the cockpit forward style. Hundreds of these rear-seaters are still out there. Print this article and keep it with the boat if you have one.
Tip of the Helmet: Mike O’Brien
Read the article.

The word “iceboater” should be listed as a synonym for “dedication.”
Bill Mattison

Iceboat Swapmeets across North America

by | Sep 22, 2022 | 2022-2023, Home Page


Ice sailing has a handful of commercial builders, unlike soft water boats. A few commercial builders serve the DN class, and the Nite Class has one. Swap meets are crucial to the sport. Swap meets are like big box iceboat stores where you can see a variety of iceboats and parts for sale in person. Swap meets are essential to commercial builders and the iceboating community. Support your local upcoming swap meet!


HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA
Date: Saturday, October 29, 2022
Time: Noon – 5 PM ET
Location: 470 Bay St. North, Hamilton, ON, Canada
The Canadian Ice Force is hosting a backyard swap meet and social at Les Druiven’s (KC3475) house. RSVP to Lester: dldruiven@gmail.com. Park at the Leander Rowing club on the shore and walk back up the hill on the footpath (1 minute). Canadian Commodore Colin Duncan and other Kingston sailors are attending.

NEW ENGLAND: Sponsored by the New England Ice Yachting Association
Date: Saturday, October 29, 2022
Time: 10 AM ET
Location: Thompson Speedway Golf Course, 205 E Thompson Rd, Thompson, CT 06277
More information.

MICHIGAN: Sponsored by Gull Lake, West Michigan, and Grand Traverse Ice Yacht Clubs
Date: Saturday, November 5, 2022
Time: 10 AM – 1 PM ET
Location: The Dock ( at Bayview) from
12504 E D Ave
Richland, MI 49083
Map
Swap, sell, buy, trade. Catch up with friends and make many more who enjoy our unique sport of Ice Yachting.

MINNESOTA: Hosted by Tim Carlson at Sailcrafters
Date: Saturday, November 5
Time: 9 AM – Noon CT
Location: 7450 Oxford Street
St. Louis Park, MN 55426
Map

WISCONSIN: Sponsored by the Skeeter Iceboat Club
Date: Sunday, November 6, 2022
Time: 10 AM CT
Location: Delavan Lake Yacht Club
1501 Cedar Point Drive, Delavan, WI
Map
Swap starts at 10 AM followed by food and beverages inside yacht club. Packers at Detroit starting at noon. Admission free, ample parking and grassy area.