Ice is unsafe! Boats coming off this weekend See Ice Conditions----------->

Super Bowl Sunday update:

--Ironically Super Bowl Sunday has traditionally been a day for ice boating. I recall many years of sailing all day & then watching the game later on that evening.  Members of our sailing club managed a day on the ice this year, but alas it was to dismantle and put the yachts away for the season.  Deteriorating, unsafe  ice at our access point on Murderers Creek, as well as forecast for rain & temperatures in the 50s mid week, led to the call to get the fleet off the ice.  We had the safety of a nearby cove to get the boats on shore.  A large crew helped get all boats off in the course of 4 hours Sunday.   

We marveled at the engineering of the lateen rigged frame of Vixen, dismantling parts crafted in 1885! 

Getting prepped to drop the mast on Boreas. 

Mary Ellen dates to the 1870s.... 

Galatea, dates to 1885 or so.  Many hands were needed to get her heavy backbone & plank off the ice,

2-12-22  update,  

Some very cold days ahead.  Might some of the fleet get a day or two more?? Ice check on Sunday to see...  Galatea adds a new( or quite old actually) set of sails... 

 

The warming spell has compromised the ice and don't look for any sailing here this weekend. 

This past week saw a few boats out on the ice. Wednesday was described as "Epic."  Beautiful ice, perfect winds and a full day of full speed runs from the village dock to the north end of Middle Ground Flats. By late in the day the warm temps led to softening ice, and the boats were carving deep grooves in the ice. Time to drop sail.  

photos courtesy of Bob Wills

Orion on the Hudson, off of the Stewart House, Athens 

Orion & Vixen, pausing during an Epic day on the ice, 2/9/22