Ice Pic Gallery

Raising the Mast on Jack Frost. By using the small boat’s mast as a gin pole, all the guys can just stand around and watch!

No flat spots in the cockpit opening of Frank Able’s new Whizz

The fleet, dressed in their stormy best for the Long Way, Moosehead Lake

Storm conditions on Moosehead, closing day, April 6, 2013

Opening day on Plymouth, Nov. 30, 2012

Bill and Jory on Great Pond, headed for the narrows

Scorpion ice on Great Pond, Belgrade.

The back door to Bailey’s Cove, Lake Megunticook

There’s ice down there somewhere…

Fast sailing!

Squaring it up

Assembling the hollow plank

Where round bottom ends and rear flat bottom begins

Trimming the deck edge

Cables go nearly straight from wheel to bow chock

Steering gear in place

Seat back laminated from two pieces of 1/8″

Mast step area, with tubes for foot steering shafts visible

Setting up a new Whizz

Early season Plymouth at it’s best

Ben Fuller on board Tipsy

Best way to sheet a wing mast

Pastoral scene on Lake Damariscotta

Hollowing the center of a Renegade mast

Carbon/foam wing mast: the engine of the Whizz

John Eastman’s Meade “Clyde”, built by Bill Buchholz

Sunset across the bow on Plymouth Pond

Whizz cockpit

Monotype XV and new Meade on Chickawaukee

Mysterious ice circle in freshly frozen slush

South Twin Lake, in the shadow of Mt. Katahdin. The Lambs and others are out there somewhere, too. March, 2013

Lake Damariscotta

A nose ahead, a century behind

megunticook sundown

A current project, at pocket skeeter WHIZZ, spring 2011. Ice is coming: gotta be ready!

Tom Childs pulling the plank on the 2011 season.

Woodman, Buchholz and Paul Delnero on Sebago, last sailing day of 2011 and one of the best.

Jory attempting to dismantle the pressure ridge on Sebago.

Set up in the shop to measure for shrouds and finalize sheet leads, not to mention just staring in wonder at the magic of the building process.

Steering gear exiting hull near access port.

Backing plate let in flush to plank, streamlined button head bolts replace the typical hex heads.

Hull under a layer of six ounce glass and ready for primer; the best time to drill for all the hardware. Here, squaring up the plank to the hull

Fairing the seams and puttying the staple holes.

A closer look.

Trimming the deck edge with an appropriate tool.

Gluing on the bottom

Fitting the bottom

Cleats are added to all the lower edges to provide gluing surface for the bottom. Back aft we;ll use fillets, as the access is good we don’t want to bother with steaming the long cleat.

Bulkheads are filleted and glassed on both sides. Best to lay the glass when the fillets are semi-soft to avoid having to sand them.

Mast step area.

Bulkheads going in.

All the inside seams are taped with three inch tape. The rear bulkhead was installed earlier to help control the shape.

Making sure there’s no twist in the hull.

Sides and deck in place. The battens at the seams are stapled from the inside to help keep the seams fair. Very difficult with eighth inch ply. The seams are now filled with epoxy

Creative clamping at the stern where all the planks converge.

The planks are fastened temporarily to the bulkheads with hot glue.

The planks have been cut out with a router.

The following photos describe the building of an Icywood/DN crossover for Ron Buzzel

The happy skipper.

Scott Woodman’s Outlaw

James Lamb doing what he does on South Twin.

Buchholz and Coward on their annual “sail to the end of the ice excursion”, but this year the ice never ended but the wind did.

Out of wind on Lake South Twin

Morning on South Twin Lake, Millinockett, ME. Two Lambs, Squibb, Buchholz and Coward, late March 2011

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You don’t need to sail a mile a minute to have your breath taken away by the ice.

Saltonstall’s BLACK FLY and Randy Rice’s new build to that design. A memorable day!

Picnic on The Sebago, 2011

Family of ICW class, The Sebago 2011

Long Pond, MA 2011

Long Pond, 2011. Brian Langly’s ICE CAT.

Long Pond, MA. Worth every mile from Maine! 2011

Late days sun

Maiden voyage of Icywood DN crossover.

Praying it will be thick enough for sailing.

The ice checker’s kit, less the throw line.

Taking a break. Squibb,Buchholz, Bunting and Woodman

Storm sails indicates windy day.

Lloyd and Jory discussing the crossing of the pressure ridge.

Reflection of mast and sail in excellent ice.

Welcome, OUTLAW, to CIBC. Plymouth 11-30-10

Blowing through the snow on Damariscotta 2010

Fun in the Snow with SkimBats and ice flyer Iceabella.

Side by side, neck and neck. Long Pond, Harwich

iceboating long pond lakeville jan 31 09, jory and bill having fled snow bound Maine

Even as the spring ice is rotting around the edges, the middle is usually still very sailable. The bad spots are marked, and its off to the races.

Bill Bunting’s RED HERRING passing Indigo by bearing away.

Usual suspects lining up on Megunticook

Ice this rough makes for a bone jarring ride, especially in a DN. But with wind and sunshine and the whole of Sebago ahead, one accepts the comprimise.

Hidden treasures on an ice checking expedition, Unity Pond.

Fun for the whole family!