SOLD! March 2, 2022: Arrow in WI

by | Nov 7, 2022 | Sold, sold-1

SOLD! Arrow Sail #206
Professionally restored with the newest Struble chocks, reworked runners, newer sail, custom cockpit features including headrest and “ladder” (footrails), custom trailer with box, New England Ropes main sheet, hull/spar/plank covers. Trailer has newer tires , spare and working LED lights. Tools, spare sail, horses and lifting jack. Once belonged to Natalie Levy – published iceboating author. This is a very complete package. Everything stores in the custom trailer box.
$4,500.

In The News: Bill Mattison in Nov Seahorse Magazine

by | Nov 7, 2022 | 2022-2023, Home Page

Bill Mattison in SNAPSHOT

The November issue of Seahorse Magazine has published the first of a two-part article about Bill Mattison written by Carol Cronin. Despite never meeting him, she genuinely shares her awe about Bill’s unique talents and conveys a real sense of him through Peter Harken.
The magazine is subscription based.

You can purchase the November edition in print or digital format here.

Circus minimus – much adventure, little drama – Part I

After hearing so much about Bill Mattison’s amazing ability to ‘engineer and build anything’ I would have loved to have met him. And since he never just sat around maybe I could have watched those big meaty hands working away at one of his many skills. Scarfing a damaged iceboat plank. Repairing a carbon mast. Welding up a replacement piece for a photo developing machine. Or decorating a tiny wagon wheel for the model circus he started as a kid and continued to add to for the rest of his very full life. How could one man achieve so much success in so many different mediums, on so many different scales, from larger-than-life America’s Cup boats down to half-inch-to the- foot scale models?
-Carol Cronin

PREVIOUSLY
A Life that Dreams Are Made Of
Eight Bells
Home of the Volleyball(?) Champs
Nothing Fickler
Bill’s Circus Life
“The Icing On The Lake”
“Fast Forward Since Birth”
“The Hard-Water Gang” with Bill Mattison at the 2001 ISA
Shooting the Breeze with Bill Mattison
Bill Mattison Inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame
Iceboaters Fingerprints
Willy St. Iceboat Shop Archives

Iceboat Swap Meet Stories

by | Nov 7, 2022 | 2022-2023, Home Page

Dash inspects a DN stay adjuster.

Iceboaters have a cliché: we spend 50% of our time building them, 35% talking about them, and 15% sailing them (your mileage may vary.) Ice sailors gathered at the Southern Wisconsin Iceboat Swap Meet and fulfilled the talking-about-them quota on Sunday, November 6, at the Delavan Lake Yacht Club in Delavan, WI. Veteran and new ice sailors gathered to exchange complete boats, sails, planks, hulls, and runners. It was a lovely sunny and windy day to be back where the iceboat swap meet all began, with the Skeeter Iceboat Club.

Next milestone – who will have first runners on the ice in North America?

Iceboat Swapmeet 1
Ron Sherry and Skip Dieball
Iceboat Swapmeet 2
Nite guys Don Sanford, Mike Peters, and Brad Wagner.
Iceboat Swapmeet 3
More ice talk next to some DNs on offer.
Iceboat Swapmeet 4
Iceboaters love models!
Iceboat Swapmeet 5
Susie Pegel continuing the family tradition of organizing and staffing the raffle table.
Iceboat Swapmeet 6
There’s a big story behind this guy and this boat. Ron Sherry and a Bob Kau-built Class A Skeeter. Ron won the 1996 Northwest Free-For-All trophy in this boat.
Iceboat Swapmeet 7
Talking ice.
Iceboat Swapmeet 8
Iceboat Trailer Art

Southern WI Iceboat Swap Meet Nov 6 @ Delavan YC

by | Nov 5, 2022 | 2022-2023, Home Page


DELAVAN LAKE YACHT CLUB FALL FOOTBALL PARTY AND SOUTHERN WISCONSIN ICEBOAT SWAP MEET

Date: Sunday, November 6, 2022
Location: Delavan Lake Yacht Club, 1501 Cedar Point Drive, Delavan, WI
Time: Iceboat swap meet starts at 10 AM (turn clocks back one hour the night before)
What to Know
Everyone welcome
Admission free for swap meet, ample parking and grassy area.
Clubhouse open 9:30 AM, coffee available.
Bring items for raffle.
In case of inclement weather, smaller iceboat items can be displayed on tables inside clubhouse.
Buffet available for everyone from 11 AM – 1 PM. Menu to include: hot ham slices for making sandwiches, baked beans, pasta salad, cookies.
Price: $12
Packers vs. Detroit Lions at noon on TV
DLYC members can put charges on their accounts
Non-DLYC members pay by credit card

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU