Nite sailors Daniel Hearn, Dave Navin, and Nite Commodore Maureen Bohleber gathered at 4LIYC Renegader Damien Luyet’s shop last Friday to kick off a ten-mast build. Under the watchful eye of Jerry Simon, they spent the day using a table saw, bandsaw, and planer to shape Sitka Spruce boards into mast blanks. Brad Wagner, Jim Lafortune, and Don Anderson dropped in to check on the process of making sawdust. The mast blanks are now at Daniel Hearn’s shop for the next steps of routing for the mast track and production of metal components.
In the weekend mail, the Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club makes the cover of the Guide to Monona, Wisconsin. That’s Paul Krueger in his Class A Skeeter RAMBL’N at the 2022 International Skeeter Association Regatta held on Lake Monona with Renegades and the 4LIYC Jim Payton Memorial ATV in the background.
The 2023-2024 ice sailing season officially kicks off this Friday in Madison with a full-on Nite Rager.
The Nite Rager is on for this Friday, June 23 starting at 9:30 AM. We will meet at Damien Luyet’s shop at 9:30 AM. Address is 2618 Industrial Dr., Monona. Tasks for the session are to re-saw and plane all wood to side board thickness. Weigh and deflect all boards for individual mast pairing. Cut all mast halves to correct profile and mark for internals. Cut leading edge pieces to prepare for glue up. Possibly route trailing edges for mast track. All are welcome to join. I imagine we’ll order some lunch delivery.
Here’s a novel way to keep your knowledge of iceboating rules sharp through a board game invented by Michael Young of the Chickawaukee Ice Yacht in Maine. Michael created the game as a birthday gift for a fellow ice and land sailing friend. He collaborated with fellow boaters Jeff Roseberry and Jim Turner and used some of their ideas leading to the birth of the first-ever iceboating board game.
The board is a 3 mm printed plastic sign-board, the game pieces are bronze filament 3D-printed DNs, and the Action Cards are business-card-stock with Pemetic Ice Yacht Club printed on the backs which pay homage to the now-defunct club on Mount Desert Island, Maine.
Via Michael:
The rules are simple. All ice boating rules apply. Landing on the Black Ice (dark blue band around the board) doubles the Action Card, good or bad. Roll the dice, move in straight lines only, then draw an Action Card and follow the instructions. Some Action Cards are beneficial, some not, and others are just for a laugh. A one-lap race is enough, but players can decide at race time. A blank Action Card is included so local conditions/rules can be used or added.
The winner must fully cross the finish line after the roll and draw card to win. Sorry, no trophies for winners included, bragging rights only!
To keep costs reasonable game includes
1 Game Board 24″ x 24″ (folds to 12″ x 24″)
Action Card Sheets (need to be detached)
Die
Iceboating Right of Way Rules
Game Rules
Eight numbered game piece DNs.
UPDATE June 24: Via Michael: Cost is $90 which includes shipping and handling in the US, Canadian orders will be $60 per game with shipping and handling priced at what it costs to do. All checks will be in US dollars so as not to deal with exchange rates. Contact Michael to order or for more information at michaelyoungswh @ gmail.com
The Pemetic Ice Yacht Club of Mount Desert Island, Maine was active up until the 1920s.
Here’s another gem discovered by Henry Bossett, an illustrated ad for Pettijohn cereal. According to Mr. Breakfast, Pettijohn’s was produced by a Chicago company from 1889 until 1893, when Quaker Oats bought it. As was the case in those days, the artists were anonymous.
UPDATE: The artist is Fanny Cory, one the first female syndicated cartoonists.
