After a prolonged January thaw, we are looking at a very deep freeze over the next ten days. Will be watching for the possibility of the Hudson River making good ice. Meanwhile all local ice - several lake and Bay locations were just getting boats set up - is buried under 7-8 inches of powder that fell over the past weekend. That's enough to make it near impossible to sail through. Unless you have 450 sq foot of sail area!  

                        Ice Yacht Cold Wave sailing through 7" of new snow in 15 mph winds.  

Cold Wave, circa 1906(?) sailed out of Long Island for many years, after being restored by Ruben Snodgrass, who sailed her in the 1978 Van Nostrand Cup race in Red Bank.  Cold Wave finished ahead of the other boats in that race.  This is the first time she's been back on the ice since 2014 on the Hudson River in Barrytown.  The Lawrence family now sails her.