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Ice Boats
An ice boat resembles a sailboat in appearance, however, it is usually fitted with skis or runners designed to run over ice like skates.
Cold temperatures and smooth ice free of snow make for ideal ice boating conditions.
Students at the Bayfront Center For Maritime Studies helped build the Bellport Frostfish. This boat is a scooter type, which has no steering skate. Instead, it is steered with sail trim and by shifting crew weight fore and aft. The design evolved as a winter hunting, fishing and rescue boat on the south shore of Long Island, NY.
Bellport Frostfish #306 Shave Ice ready to sail in Erie
A Meade Glider, an iceboat built in the 1920's, sailing on Presque Isle Bay. (Video courtesy of Aaron Lasher and Elizabeth Nelson.)
Ice Scream, an Arrow class two seater iceboat