Triple the Fun at the Nordhaus Boatwerks

by | Sep 21, 2017 | 2017-2018, Home Page, Renegade

September 19: Jim Nordhaus and Scott Goetz sanding 3 Renegade masts.

4LIYC Renegade sailors are in getting-ready-for-the-season mode. Jim Nordhaus and Geoff Sobering have been recording the progress on the 4LIYC Facebook page of a 3 mast Renegade build at the Nordhaus Boatwerks.

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September 14: “Finally got back to building the three masts that we started months ago. One is completely built excluding hardware. The next two are completely laid up, fitted and ready for glue.”
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September 16: “With the help of Matt Parnell we got gluing done on the second mast. Sure is fun using 205 when the temperature is in the 80s!”

A Surprise in the Mail

by | Jun 10, 2017 | 2017-2018, Home Page

Bill Mattison’s Renegade, SNAPSHOT.

A package recently arrived here at iceboat.org containing an old scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings and black and white photos of the Madison iceboating scene from the late 1940s through 1950s. Herb Krogman may have assembled this historic scrapbook and Renegader Jerry Simon has volunteered to look through it to help confirm my suspicions.(By the way, if you sent this to me, please send send me an email so that I can thank you!)
In the meantime, here are a few photos for now. I’ll continue to scan and post more in the coming weeks.

Classic view of Skeeters racing on Lake Monona.

What a fleet of Renegades!