2024 ISA Notice of Race

by | Dec 21, 2023 | Home Page, ISA, Regattas

Nite sailor Marek Valasek 444 finds some air and lift a runner at the 2023 ISA on Lake Kegonsa. 

ISA Home Page
Click here to read 2024 International Skeeter Association Regatta Notice of Race.
The ISAA Regatta will be held on January 12, 13, & 14, 2024 and may be postponed until ice conditions are suitable.

2024 Northwest Regatta Notice of Race

by | Dec 21, 2023 | Home Page, NIYA, Regattas, WSSA

B Skeeter: Fritz Buttons

Northwest Home Page
Click here to read the 2024 Northwest Ice Yachting Association Notice of Race.
The regatta is scheduled to be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, January 19, 20 & 21, 2024 but may be postponed until ice conditions are suitable.

2024 Senior Shuffle Notice of Race

by | Dec 21, 2023 | 2023-2024, DN, Home Page

The inspiration for the Senior Shuffle – the 2021 Grand Masters Regatta in Sweden.

Click here to read Senior Shuffle NOTICE OF RACE
Previous: Senior Shuffle Announcement
The Senior Shuffle DN Championship Regatta is January 8 – 10, 2024, the three days after the DN Western Region Championship, which is scheduled for January 6 – 7.

FDR Presidential Library Historic Stern-Steerer Display Dec 21 – Jan 7

by | Dec 20, 2023 | 2023-2024, Home Page, WSSA

“John A. Roosevelt at the tiller of Kriss (not Vixen) on the Hudson, 1902” Photo & caption courtesy of White Wings and Black Ice

If you are a fan of the classic Hudson River stern-steerers, this exhibit is worth a visit. Via the Hudson River Ice Yacht Preservation Trust and Brian Reid’s White Wings and Black Ice

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum to host a display of authentic Hudson Valley Ice Yachts
December 21, 2023 through January 7, 2024
Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home
Ice yachts on display will include KRISS, built for FDR’s uncle John Aspinwall Roosevelt, CYCLONE, built for Herman Livingston Rogers, son of the Roosevelt’s Hyde Park neighbor Archibald Rogers, and 999, built for the owners of the J. G. Bodenstein Ice Tool Company in Staatsburgh, New York in the 1870s.

The display is presented by the Hudson River Ice Yacht Preservation Trust and Hudson River Ice Yacht Club. The boats can be seen — with full rigging — in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home, during regular operating hours (9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.), with free admission. The facilities are closed on Christmas and New Years Day.