The first iceboat in America is attributed to Oliver Booth in 1790 at Poughkeepsie, NY . This craft was a small triangular box with two runners affixed to the front and a steering runner at the rear.
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Because of low friction over the surface and high speeds over the ice that create high apparent wind speeds for most points of sail, iceboats can derive power from lift further off the wind than displacement boats.
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Iceboats are not produced commercially on a wide scale, but remain largely the province of hobbyists and enthusiasts building with high quality wood and plywood and more exotic materials such as foam, carbon fiber, fiberglass and epoxy.
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So a boat capable of sailing at 10 degrees off the apparent wind ( which is the case for many iceboats ) that sails at 90 degrees to the true wind will be sailing nearly 6 times faster than the wind.
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Original Northumberland Strait iceboats are preserved at the Northumberland Fisheries Museum in Pictou, Nova Scotia as well as the Gateway Village tourism complex in Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island; an outdoor interpretive display can be seen in Cape Traverse.
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The first iceboats were adaptations of regular sailing boats, with a wooden plank fastened cross-wise at the front having a fixed runner at each end, and a steering runner attached to the bottom of the rudder at the stern ( back ).
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While riding in their homemade iceboat on the frozen surface of Barmet Bay, Frank and Joe Hardy and Chet Morton discuss their plans for the upcoming Christmas holiday break, and decide to ask if they could rent out the namesake cabin on Cabin Island.
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"' Sailing "'comprises hull, keel, and rudder of a sailing craft, by forces from skate runners for an iceboat, and by forces from wheels for a land sailing craft to allow steering a course on a point of sail with respect to the true wind.
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By the 20th century, the federal government began to face the reality of an unreliable winter iceboat service, which existed primarily due to the Dominion having failed to meet its obligation to provide " continuous steamship service " under the Prince Edward Island Terms of Union, when the province entered Confederation in 1873.
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Over the years, the library sent many of the president's unwieldy possessions to museums, but it took until Monday to find a new home for the single largest object of all, a century-old, 48-foot-long iceboat that once outpaced express trains as it hissed along the frozen Hudson.
