Originally Posted by Eric Anderson
Yea Tawd it was kind of a bummer sellin the A cat, but it was either that or be homeless.
On the other hand it is only soft water sailing. Its not like I am giving up iceboats.

This weekend I thought my nuts were never coming back. It was about 6 deg sailing Saturday. Sunday was a balmy 15 degrees.
This is a video of John Harper which gives a feel for what Iceboating is like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1hea5S1p9M

Of course when this was taken it was only blowing about 10 mph so they were not going that fast, mayby 40 down wind. On a windy day a 1 mile windward leeward takes about 2 1/2 min upwind and 70-90 seconds downwind. Upwind -downwind closing speeds ~100 mph.
Nothing like it.

Eric US 5193


I wanna try that so bad.Looks like making a trip and the conditions panning out would be almost impossible.
You need to get another A cat.
I know you can swim.
For anyone who doesn't know, Eric penned the Tawd moniker and he's a little light in his loafers with too much sugar in his blood.
Tawd

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