Cold Lightning
A 100 mph-plus Skeeter class ice boat
- Category
- Novelty Boats
- Designer
- William D. Jackson
- Published
- p. 31
- Craft Print
- 302
A modern Skeeter class iceboat for northern lakes in winter, flashing across the ice at two to three times the speed of the wind and often over 100 mph. It weighs just 275 lb with 71 sq ft of sail, and the hull, mast and fittings use ordinary house-framing lumber.
Specifications
- Weight
- 275 lb
- Construction
- 16 ft 2 x 6 main longeron from house-framing lumber, plywood fuselage, streamlined mast and boom
- Power
- Sail: 71 sq ft
Downloads
Plan sheets 11
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