In the grand scheme of things if that was the major cash set back, your still doing very well Dave.

 

That kinda what I figured too. Still have a few incidentals to take care of, but I'm working on a new project right now.

 

A new project? Vehicle type? don't keep us in suspense.

 

New project..... Ya got to tell us soon, this suspense is a killer!

 

I'm building an iceboat. Got it half made Tuesday afternoon.

 

Is this iceboat Ford powered?

 

The type with the sail? Those look fun.

 

Oh that is great fun. One of the first things I ever built was an iceboat. I was eleven. Put it together with anything I could scrounge. Didn't know about rough ice yet.........
Maiden voyage, got going about fifty, hit the rough ice and my iceboat started to disintegrate. (Note to self, use bolts and nuts, not nails!) It was a long walk home!

 

Yup, the type with the sail. Now I'll be able to sail summer and winter! Bruce, NAILS!!!! Wow, you're lucky you didn't get hurt. I can't wait. I'm hoping to get it mostly done today. I'll post some pics once I get her all fabbed up. Still don't have a name for her. The kids want to call it Skrat. That's the squirrel from Ice age, but my buddy is naming his Ice Age 1. So that won't work.

 

I have no idea what an iceboat is, looking forward to that thread!

 

What ever it is don`t use nails.....

 

Roger that! If you do that, you only get a single one-way trip!

 

Good call Morris! Mostly bolts and a few screws on mine. I don't like walking that much. Also, this being the first one that I know of in Westman, I want it to work the first time. Too many Naysayers out there. Turns out I'm 3 pieces short of completion. I'll have to do some scrounging....

 

At first I thought you guys were just joking around, then I remembered seeing one of those "iceboats" a out at Sylvan lake,a while ago, they were racing. Just to be sure, is it something like a small 1 man sailboat, (sunboat they call it in Mexico), flat bottom, with a sail? If so, how do you build one? I live right on Gregoire Lake up here, and that would be so much fun, especially since it's always so darned windy here.

 

Do you use puck board for the bottom, or...?