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15meter
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Dumbest sport ever invented. Wait for ice to sail, most often multiple hours away. Load up and drive there only to have a snow storm blow in and ruined the ice. Or no wind. Or too much wind.
Plus you have to drink your beer FAST so it doesn't get too cold. But a chunky beer is still a beer.
I've been doing it for 46 years, about to start my 47th year. I have 3 boats, down from 5, my daughter has a DN also.
But I'm a piker, was talking to a buddy Friday evening, he's got over 70 years iceboating and is looking forward to this season. He's only 84. And building a 24' cold molded sailboat as his covid project. Started it at the beginning of covid, expects to be sailing it next summer.
He's been called the Energizer Bunny.
I've tried most of the standard hobbies, bicycling, downhill and cross country skiing, snowshoeing, fishing, hunting, shooting, casting and reloading, water skiing, motorcycling, woodworking--that's mostly wood turning now. Soft water sailing, played a little bit with racing hydroplanes. Did demolition derby once, that was a blast, if running junkers weren't so expensive I'd do that again.
Even took up cow pasture pool for a while.(golf)
Curling, would like do that more, first time was at the start of covid house arrest. What's not to like about a sport that has beer cup holders at each end of the curling sheet. There's a club about 50 miles away that is tempting to join. Would probably annoy the wife, already belong to two boat clubs, a wood turning club, two gun clubs, shoot regularly at 3 other gun clubs, and I'm going to join the one I shoot sporting clays at after the first of the year. Not sure she'd be happy with me in 7 clubs.
The shooting/reloading/sailing/wood working/bicycling/motorcycling are what's left, but may try the downhill again this winter, haven't done that in a number of years. And I've squirreled away plans for an 8' hydroplane and I've still got a nice 50's vintage 10 hp Merc........
And I forgot luge, did that just once, need to do that again. There's a track that's about 40 minutes south of my daughters house. Just another excuse to go visit her.
This old geezer retirement stuff is hard.