Goggled against the stinging snow and wind that burn your face, you sit tense in a narrow cockpit, legs braced, toes hooked under a crossbar. The tiller jerks and trembles in your hands, intensifying ...

TOLEDO, Ohio – On an ice boat, you can speed across the expanse of Lake Erie at 60, 70 mph. “Winter is the best sailing,” said Les Lashaway, a Toledoan who grew up ice boating, like his father and ...

RICHLAND -- If someone says he gets a kick out of lying flat on his back cruising six inches off the surface of a frozen lake at 50 mph or so, please don't think he's crazy. I made the mistake of ...

A display of two fully-rigged ice yachts is ongoing through Sunday, Jan. 4, at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library ...

RED HOOK — Richard Aldrich lives in the past. The 82-year-old is a 10th-generation descendant of New York’s once-prominent Livingston family — though from the looks of him, you couldn’t tell. On a ...

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RED BANK -- The wind whipped across the Navesink River, stinging whatever skin was left uncovered. The temperature hovered just below 32 degrees. The sun blazed across a clear blue sky, but it didn’t ...

A few winters ago on the frozen shore of Dillon Reservoir, Dan Burnett was surprised to meet a sailing all-star, Buddy Melges, whom Burnett learned was on a family skiing trip here in Summit County.

Madison’s ice boating history is legendary and long, predating even this January 1965 Richard Sroda photo by nearly 100 years. Sometimes that history seems as quiet as metal blades carving a ...

Some years they go fast — up to 60 mph — with a scant 6 inches separating drivers from the surface. Other years, they don’t go at all. In an odd way, both experiences are part of the allure of ice ...