UPCOMING:
It’s Building Season!
4LIYC Meeting : November 2025
4LIYC Shipstore: Order custom iceboat shirts, hats, and gear. More information.
BURGEE: Order your 4LIYC Burgee
Pay Your Dues Online
Philatelic First
As we wait for the first “first” (ice), here’s some philatelic news. The U.S. Post Office released the 14-cent Iceboat stamp on March 23, 1985, at ROPEX, the annual stamp show in Rochester, New York. The postcard and
envelope, featuring a Nite, was one of 324,710 first-day covers cancelled and was in a collection of postcards and ephemera mailed to me by Don Fischer of Michigan. The stamp’s artist, William H. Bond, created 58 U.S. postage stamps, including a series of 50 World War II commemorative issues.
Tip of the Helmet: Don Fischer
Previous: Ice Sailing Goes Postal
4LIYC Meeting Reminder for November 9, 2022
Join Us or Zoom Us, You Choose
Our first hybrid meeting format of the season is Wednesday, November 9, 2022.
The Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club is excited to announce that we will continue our hybrid meeting format this season. If you’d like to meet in person, please join us at Commodore Daniel Hearn’s office in Madison, where the conference room table is the perfect spot to meet with ice sailors from around the country on Zoom. A few days before each meeting, we’ll post the details about how to join us on Zoom.
WHAT TO KNOW:
Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Time: 6:30 PM CT
IN PERSON S & B Strategic Marketing @ 1352 East Wilson Street, Madison, WI
DINE IN – IN PERSON:
Belair Cantina MENU
For those who’d like to meet in-person and enjoy a good meal together, we’ll be ordering takeout from a different restaurant each meeting. Belair Cantina (Mexican) will be our first provider. Here’s a link to their menu. Belair Cantina MENU
Once you know what you want, submit your order to Deb at debwhitehorse@iceboat.org Please place your order no later than 3:00 p.m. day of meeting. Food will deliver at 6:00 p.m. Bring cash to pay Deb for food and delivery driver tip. Word has it that club members are bringing beer, otherwise BYOB.
ZOOM MEETING
For those who are out of town or feel more comfortable plugging in electronically, we’ll look forward to seeing your smiling face on the big screen in the conference room. Didn’t get an email with the Zoom link? Contact Deb debwhitehorse@iceboat.org
DUES
If you haven’t already done so, please pay your dues, only $20! Information here.
NOAA Says Yes to Ice Making
Iceboaters approve this message! Accuweather November Four Lakes forecast.
In The News: Bill Mattison in Nov Seahorse Magazine
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
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?
Southern WI Iceboat Swap Meet Nov 6 @ Delavan YC
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
What’s In Your Shop?
“Yes, we’ve been busy! Got M-165 repair and paint job done. Rambl’n is ready to Rumble!” – Past Champions Iceboat Shop
DNs, Renegades, and Skeeters are in the Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club’s shops getting patched, painted, and tuned up. What’s in your shop?
4LIYC Online Iceboat Shipstore Open
4LIYC Online Ships Store
The Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club has partnered with Coral Reef Sailing Apparel to offer a full range custom shirts, hats, and more. You choose your iceboat graphic – a DN, Nite, Renegade, or Skeeter. Add a last name, boat name or sail number to personalize your Four Lakes Ice Yacht Club Tech Shirt!
Order a shirt or branded gear today.
A New World Record: Biggest Iceboat in the World
Iceboating has attracted dreamers and creators since some guy in Holland first thought about attaching iron skates to a canal boat back in the 1600s. This past summer, David Janzen of Ontario, Canada, achieved his dream of building the biggest iceboat in the world. An iceboat that big needs big ice, and Janzen is hauling it to Thunder Bay, Ontario, this winter to learn how she sails.
Tip of the Helmet: Mike Madge
By the numbers:
Mast 53′
Hull 70′
Plank 37′
Sail is under construction.
By comparison, the stern-steerer DEUCE, mast 51′, hull 54′- 6″ and plank, 36′.
Minnesota’s Pat Heppert, who designed the C Skeeter cab-forward DRIFTER, has been in touch with Jansen during the project.
I admire David Janzen’s infectious enthusiasm and the extreme commitment to following an extreme dream and making it a reality. Truly impressive effort, and done on an average man’s budget. Follow your own path, and be your own hero. Can’t wait to see the smile on his face after that first sail that makes it all worthwhile.
Pat
Eight Bells: Marv Luck
Marv Luck sailing his Johnson B Stern Steerer at the 2010 Northwest Ice Yacht Association regatta. Photo: Gretchen Dorian
The South Side Ice Yacht Club in Oshkosh, WI, lowered their flag to half mast today in honor of Marv Luck, who passed away this morning, October 20, 2022.
Marv was the epitome of a Lake Winnebago stern-steerer sailor who loved this sport more than just about anyone. Marv collected Lake Winnebago ice sailing videos, newspaper articles, and photos which he always shared with me. My files are filled with Lake Winnebago history, thanks to Marv.
Rest in peace, Marv.
UPDATE: October 21, 2022:
Services will be held on Sat 10/29 at Fiss & Bills-Poklasny Funeral Home 865 S Westhaven Dr Oshkosh. Official obituary will be posted later.
Visitation will be held from 9:30-11:00am, Service at 11:00 and burial at Riverside to follow. We are also going to hold a light luncheon at the South Side Ice Yacht club following the burial
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4LIYC Governing Documents
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- January 2 THURSDAY Honor Roll Nominations
- January 15 Deadline for By-Law or Racing Rules Amendment Submission
- January 29
- February 12 Business Meeting
- February 26
- March 12 Last Meeting of the Season
Location: In person at the Elks Lodge 711 Jenifer St, Madison, WI 53703
Time: 6:30 PM
YOU ARE SKIPPER NUMBER
TO ROUND THE MARK SINCE NOVEMBER 1999.
