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FOR IMMEDIATE SALE – 1991 “Sparrow Hawk” C-Class Skeeter
Price: $ 6,000 (READY-TO-SAIL)

Only 100 hours total time! Located in Southwest Lower Michigan & now ready for inspection! This boat is turnkey ready-to-go and is designed to be car-topped! (Designer/Builder car-topped this boat on a Ford Escort Compact Car).
Just removed today from a clean/dry indoor-storage facility after 16 years of rest!

Sparrow Hawk Dimensions – Fuselage alone=14’, Fuselage w/Springboard O.A.L.=17’6”, Mast=19’2”, Runner Plank=14’, Boston-sewn high-aspect sail is included and is in absolute pristine condition. Full-length battens included. Hull covers also included.

FOR IMMEDIATE SALE – Front Cockpit Skeeter (Project)
Price only $ 4,400.
An Unbelievable Opportunity!
Originally inspired by Dan Clapp’s works, this lightweight boat was designed completely from wood! The builder possessed a burning desire to build a lighter and substantially more affordable craft for the average person’s budget than its composite-competition. That reason alone provided all of the incentive needed! Figuratively speaking, the designer/builder feels that he just may have “hit the nail on the head” this time! Constructed primarily of clear strips of quarter-sawn light and dark-colored tulipwood, this stunning design also sports beautiful knurly-grained 1/8” oak-plywood decks. The hull’s stripped/laminated side panels were mathematically planned-out ahead of time and machined so that each strip would grow and shrink proportionately, but with virtually no physical grain run-out. This complicated step was primarily incorporated to provide incredible strength and stunning beauty when finished bright. There is no doubt that this gorgeous iceboat will inspire new ideas among the troops for decades to come and is sure to provide a visual centerpiece at any regatta. The designer/builder’s priorities have changed since starting this project. His new family-life and woodworking business took a front burner. Therefore, after several years of painful indecision, he has finally decided to step back and allow a new owner to bring this impressive project to a close. The difficult part has already been accomplished!

OLDER DN FOR SALE. extra gale sail. Decent condition. Believe built by Gugeon. Spare questionable mast. Lake Minnetonka area. Mike (9520 474-3513 (EVE) (952) 943-3925 (DAYS) $650. mflannigan@brokerbanksecurities.com

DN sold. 16 inquiries in first few hours shows interest in the sport.

DN for Sale : 09 November 2007

Hull and plank freshly repainted.Aluminum Kenyon mast.

Complete package includes sail, boom, runners,hull cover, sail bag and
mast bag.

All this and ready to sail for just $1500.

Contact Gus Stauber @ 231-933-9733

Log onto http://www.gtiyc.com/classifieds/ for picture of boat.

My brother and I are looking for an Arrow. Michigan to Maine but close to New Jersey would be nice.

I some used inserts for sale: 1/4"x36" Sarns steel with aluminum bar stiffeners. $450.00
Luks Carbon body 316 Stainless steel 3/16"x36" pr.in box $1000.00 nice profile ready to go.
Luks Carbon body 316 Stainless steel 1/4"x36" pr. in box $1000.00 Very nice, hardly used. Pr.
Set of three Luks Carbon bodied special steel 3/16x36" new in box.I was told that the steel was the kind used in ice skates in Europe. I tried drilling it and found it hard up at the body. Parking brake recessed into the body. $2100.00 Trades conciderd.
I have new 1/4"x36" and 3/16"x36" 440C s/s inserts available. water jet cut, cut from plate stock, RC 56-58, nice and flat,

I have a Nite for sale with trailer.
This boat has molded-in transom hand holds, 5 block gang slider on boom, mast with aluminum sail slot, Bill Sarns runners, Sobstad sail with Harken foam core battens, Harken blocks. Complete covers: hull, springboard bag, mast bag, plank bag, sail/boom bag.
Always stored inside, not used for past three or four seasons. In pristine condition except for some spike marks on the runner plank.
Located at Sailing Specialists in Williams Bay, WI, on Lake Geneva, 85 miles northwest of Chicago. Priced with all equipment at $5900.00. Can email photos.

contact Jane Pegel

Flash- due to continued military conflict in Iraq , carbon fiber is becomming scarce.I recently saw they are starting to build a Humvee out of Kevlar and carbon.
Several suppliers ive used in the past are only selling full rolls. We found a good deal on carbon on ebay find some one selling cut yardage and ask for longer lengths.
The Mold is prepped ready for 3 new experimental Viagra Masts Carbon Kevlar Texalium.Bullet proof and under weight.
Dont forget to Sharpen those rusty runners.
See you at the western Challenge
Icehole Racing Team Sponsored by Viagra,Aleve and Ice holeSchnapps
Rasty Dn1313

Every once in a while great ice conditions occur in Kansas City, global warming and all. I invite all Arrow owners to visit 3 videos of a spectacular Sunday in late February 2007. to find the videos on the web go to: www.youtube.com
In the search box type in: lotawana
Click search.

“…and one of us will win!” The softer side of hardwater racing.
Parts of this date from 1992 and I cannot speak to the prior evolution of the sport locally; these are my observations.

John Dennis and Jimmy Gluek suckered me into test sailing a DN Iceboat on Medicine Lake Minnesota in the spring of 1991, it was a great spring day, blowing 10-15 mph. I tried it once and owned a boat that very day and have every day since then. What a hoot, it still is.

Photo Credit: Geoff Sobering

The Weather Channel announced the Series "Epic Conditions", in January of this year,
The Weather Channel
updated 1/08/07
Epic Conditions

Coming in early 2007, dates and times TBA
The Weather Channel will follow thrill seekers such as sailboarders and mountain bikers. (Genres: Human Interest, Lifestyle).
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I've repeatedly had a giggle over the blistering I've taken by some of the more stoic iceboaters, about the use of this particular word,... and about the use of hyperbole in promotional arts.

18' Chrysler Buccaneer 1977 in very good ready to sail condition for ice boat of equal value. With Galvanized oversize trailer for larger soft water boat, Gamefisher outboard used once since carb.rebuild. many extras. Located in South Jersey. john.horan4@verizon.net No pics available now.

contact Peter Lewis Mazzone Mazzone_Investigations@Juno.com

Will the owner of the "Puffer" ice boat please contact our office at 952 471 1300. Thank You- Deputy Piper

We are looking for prints or drawings for alignment plates. Have had several inquiries for these from boaters. We'd like to see if we can add this to our parts list at Dave's Machining,LP. Send reply to davesmachining.com