ice boat
Sign in to saveAlso known as Iceboat, Iceyacht, Ice yacht
thumb|David Vinckboons: Landscape with skaters (cca. 1615), 17th century boer type iceboatsthumb|right|Boer Ice sailing in the Netherlands in 1938.
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Venues
- Evolution of design
- Speed
- Attainable speeds
- Race courses
- Classes
- IceOptimist
- International DN
- Monotype XV
- Nite
- Renegade
- Skeeter
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|David Vinckboons: Landscape with skaters (cca. 1615), 17th century boer type iceboatsthumb|right|Boer Ice sailing in the Netherlands in 1938.
An iceboat (occasionally spelled ice boat or traditionally called an ice yacht) is a recreational or competition sailing craft supported on metal runners for traveling over ice. One of the runners is steerable. Originally, such craft were boats with a support structure, riding on the runners and steered with a rear blade, as with a conventional rudder. As iceboats evolved, the structure became a frame with a seat or cockpit for the iceboat sailor, resting on runners. Steering was shifted to the front.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ice boat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.