Let me see, January 26th, yup I was in my boat cruising Long Pond in Lakeville. Ice Ice everywhere! Yippee...
Want to see some photos try here:
http://www.pbase.com/ip35perspective/long_pond_ice_boat
A lot of equipment has changed hands recently due to the cold and boats are being dusted off everywhere. I cannot think of much used stuff under 1,800.00 actually.
The main contact in new england who sells a lot of used equipment plus all the hardware you need to build an iceboat is Steve Duhamel of Northwind Iceboats in Hanover MA
nthwnd1@aol.com
(781)826-8004
Chances are he is at the DN Worlds taking place starting today and running for the next week up on the western shore of Lake Champlain in Valcour NY South of Plattsburgh. They expect 150 DN's from all over the World to compete over the course of the week.
A lot of standing around going on due to weather and logistics of the number of boats. Hey, you try lining up 150 DN iceboats on a starting line on a course just a little over a mile square. Actually they run three classes of races for begginer, intermediate and advanced racers (bronze, silver and gold fleets).
You can check our New England Ice Yacht Assocation website out here:
http://www.cris.com/~Dn4762/
There is a link for "unclassifieds" for used boats but not much there at the moment.
You can also check the International DN Ice Yacht Racing Assoc. Bulletin Board which has a classifed section but boats can be in the midwest so ask:
http://cerebus.winsite.com/DNboard/DNmain.html
I highly recommend you sign up for our Yahoo Iceboating E-Group and post a message that you are in the market for a boat and mention your budget and distance willing to travel. I find it best when signing up to chose 'no-emails' and just go to the homepage to see the messages there. Much less annoying than getting a constant stream of e-mails. There are also resources at the homepage like a photos and files section which are worth visting. You can visit the homepage once you have a Yahoo User name and login here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceBoating/
One of my favorite iceboat sites is the Four Lakes site at:
www.iceboat.org
The North Shrewsbury NJ Ice Boat & Yacht club is having a big event this weekend and I am sure you can find plenty of boats for sale there. Their website is:
http://www.nsibyc.com/
If you want to know where the New England Ice Yacht Assoc. club members are sailing any given weekend call our recorded hotline: (508)481-1011
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