Last Day at Athens Jan 30 2025

                                                        Ice Conditions

 Whiff was dismantled and packed up this afternoon.  We had a few hours of sailing today off the boat launch. Ice measured 4-5 inches. With Fridays rain it was decided to be prudent and clear out.  We'll have to see the impact of the rain to see where the next best ice may be. Time to check out Berkshire Bowl and/or Copake Lake. Conditions continue to be monitored at Orange Lake as well.

  Last sail for Whiff in Athens, on a southwest breeze, or wait make that Northwest; uh now it's out of the north, and yet now from the west..... 

I've been getting a lot of great photos of sailing at Athens this week.  Still going through many of them.  Two Athens area photographers have been capturing the action over a number of years. 

Check out  a few of their pictures, follow the links below. Much better captures than  I'll ever get on my phone.  Enjoy & thanks to Robert & Jonathan.  

Robert Near Athens Pictures                     Jonathan Palmer Athens Ice 

 

Sometimes after a long day of moving ice boats and rigging them, you just need a game of Cats Cradle.... 

     Jonathan Palmer photo 

Meanwhile Brett has been testing the ice at Orange Lake several days this week in Genevieve.  High winds and a large sail area pushed through the snow cover.

Genevieve  circa 1910 was built in the Bronx for the Wrigley (baseball) family. It sailed out in the mid-west until about 20 years ago when Brett brought it back east. It was built to a design drawn up by H. Percy Ashley, who designed and built boats on Orange Lake in the 1890s and early 1900s.  Many Ashley designs were published in Rudder magazine at the turn of the century. 

photos courtesy of Maggie McNamara