The alcort sunfish empire began with a commercially unsuccessful ice boat design, some 50 boats made in the early 1960’s. cibc member al heath bought one from uncle henry’s some years ago and has been sailing it hard and maintaining it little for many seasons.. Iceboat designs! we have been thinking of building a small ice/snow, sail boat. can anyone direct us to a simple small design the can be taken down easy and used for sailing on snow laden lakes as well as ice? a sunfish sail and mast, a 2 x 6 about 12 feet long...another 2 x 6 about 6 feet long, assorted nuts/screws/glue and bob's your. An ice boat (often spelled as "iceboat") is a boat or purpose-built framework similar in functional design to a sail boat but fitted with skis or runners (skates) and designed to run over ice instead of through (liquid) water. ice yachting is the sport of sailing and racing iceboats. sail-able ice is known in the sport as "hard water" versus sailing on liquid or "soft" water..
There is an old mechanix illustrated plan called a frostfish using a sunfish rig. boat is pretty much 2 x 4s and plywood, but it will get you on the ice.. Ice boat sailors and tinkerers, bryan and heyniger created a unique boat including innovations such as a mast with no stays and a sail that remained permanently attached to the two booms. there were very few parts, and the hull weighted 129 pounds – making the boat simple to rig, sail and transport.. If you plan to iceboat next winter, starting your build right now is pretty good timing. jim nordhaus is one of the more prolific ice boat builders around. he has built renegades, dns, and others..
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