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17 February 2021


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GRATULACJE WRmirekd!!!
CONGRATULATIONS Henrys!! PARABÉNS Vida_Maldita!
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Sailonline first came to race on Lake Winnebago after a then-regular SOLer, Bgosh, announced that he was opening a bar and grill at Eureka Landings, just inshore of the Lake and not far from Oshkosh. Back then we didn’t have an iceboat so in our Mini 6.5s we imagined what it would be like zooming across the ice, avoiding the fish shanties put up each year by the sturgeon harpoon fishermen. Racing the lake became one of Sailonline’s “classic” races – making part of our tradition and, even though he stopped sailing on Sailonline, we’d always raise a virtual glass to Bgosh as we passed by where his bar was. One year he even put the Sailonline race on the giant smartscreen over his bar – fascinating customers that people all over the world at that very moment were pretending to race iceboats on their lake! After that, most years one of his SOL chums would update us on how things were at the bar and so it was with great sadness that we learned this year that Bgosh had succumbed to #COVID19 (more info here), so it was with additional poignance that SOLers old and new raised their virtual glasses to BGosh’s memory as they sped at 49kts or so past Eureka Landings! He’d have liked that!

Emerging from the warmth of the NNYC Club House on to the ice at Neenah must be a real shock to the system. Through the Fox River Webcamswe can keep an eye on the actual conditions on the lake. The race is a furious two-laps of Lake Winnebago in our DN Iceboats which have zero performance loss – it really is a skidding round the turns kind of affair – and this year 154 boats registered for the race, flying the flags of 29 different nations. As ever, there were casualties as the pace of the event took its toll on some racers, so the course at close has several boats bbq-ing along the Lake’s shoreline. The podium battle was tremendous – the final three top finishers with only 43s between them – and a total of 43 boats finished within 10m of our winner! Congratulations to our 2021 Iceboat Victors!

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