200 year old recipe for working cargo craft on Great South Bay, Long Island:



Take a teaspoon large enough for two or three sailors to sit in... cut off the handle right at the edge of the bowl. Put two runners on the bottom. Add a sloop rig and you're done. Note the absence of a rudder - you steer this thing with crew weight and sail trim. It will actually float on thin, broken ice, and skip back up onto the hard stuff. Goes okay on snow covered ice, too.

Key ingredient: "Schooner Oil" carried in pocket flasks by the madmen who sail these craft.