In The Throw-Back-Thursday News: Emil Fauerbach

by | Jul 18, 2019 | 2018-2019, Home Page, WSSA

Page from William Bernard Scrapbook. PRINCESS II, built by Wm. Bernard and sailed by Email Fauerbach.

A few days ago, 2 separate emails arrived within hours of each other regarding history about one of Madison’s original champion ice sailors, Emil Fauerbach. It was a sign that it’s time for a history post. Henry Bossett ran across an article about the Madison ice yachting scene published in 1904 the New Jersey Ashbury Park Press. Peter Fauerbach (Emil’s great great nephew) and all things Fauerbach historian, shared a snippet he found in his research. Emil Fauerbach was most famous for winning the Hearst Cup in 1914 in PRINCESS II. He died a few years later and left such a void in Madison’s ice sailing community that many thought it wouldn’t survive.
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FLIRT with LITTLE WIND

by | Jul 7, 2019 | 2018-2019, Home Page, WSSA


Wise iceboaters know that summer time means shop time.
Via Jay Davis, originally posted on the 4LIYC Facebook page:

Summer work project at Davis boat works in Iowa on Little Wind II. Repainting the bottom and sides. Also did some fixing on the trailer.

LITTLE WIND II, right side up at the 2013 Northwest Regatta, Green Lake, WI

Steve Arnold Photos: The Biggest of Planks

by | May 28, 2019 | 2018-2019, Home Page, WSSA

Bill Mattison builds the DEUCE runner plank c. 1980, from the Steve Arnold collection

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Vintage ’80s

Bill Mattison with help from 4LIYC members built a new runner plank for the World’s Largest Iceboat©, the DEUCE, in the early 1980s in his Williamson St. shop. Luckily, we have photos that the late Steve Arnold took during that build. Twenty some years later, Bill supervised the lofting and building of DEUCE’s hull at Rick Hennig’s Cabbage Patch shop in Racine which culminated in a glue-party that attracted iceboaters from all over the Midwest who wanted to take part in that historic occasion. (Photos and stories documenting that build here.) I can’t think of a better time to repost Dave Elsmo’s classic video about the DEUCE, “54 Foot of Fast”, embedded below.

Bill Mattison Stern Steerer Plank 5
Left, Don Sanford, John Bock; right, Mike McCormick,
Bill Mattison Stern Steerer Plank 4
Left, Lon Schoor; Jim Payton with back to camera, Bill Mattison, seated.
Bill Mattison Stern Steerer Plank 3
Jim Payton and Lon Schoor.
Bill Mattison Stern Steerer Plank 2
Bill Mattison Stern Steerer Plank 1

Cover Girl: The MICHIGANDER

by | May 20, 2019 | 2018-2019, Home Page, WSSA

MICHIGANDER on Pewaukee Lake for the 2018 Wisconsin Stern Steerers Association championship.

The biannual magazine from the makers of  “what holds us together”, Gougeon’s (West Systems) Epoxy Works, highlights one of the finest Class A stern-steerers ever crafted, Eric Sawyer’s MICHIGANDER. Get a free print or digital subscription to the magazine here.

Regatta Watch: WSSA Cancelled For the Season

by | Mar 19, 2019 | Home Page, Regattas, WSSA

The season is over for the Wisconsin Stern Steerers Association. Here’s the Stern Steerer kid to help give the season a send-off.

Regrettably the Wisconsin Stern Steering Association regatta has been cancelled for this season. Perhaps there will be some early ice in December that might allow us to race for the 2019 season. In the meantime you have all summer to fix those nagging problems, or for some of us, to finish the new boat so it is ready for early ice. Keep your runners sharp!
Andy Gratton
WSSA Secretary/Treasurer

Regatta Watch: WSSA Postponed

by | Mar 14, 2019 | Home Page, Regattas, WSSA

ROSEMARY, skippered by Andy Gratton at the 2019 Northwest Regatta.            Photo: Pat Heppert

The Wisconsin Stern Steering Association regatta has been postponed to March 23 and 24, 2019. The next update will be Sunday, March 17. Check back here at that time.
Andy Gratton

WSSA Secretary/Treasurer