Then an iceboat, a beautiful, tempting little one, whizzed past like an arrow. |
And when the water gets hard only the iceboat crowd is smiling. |
He's worked on patrol boats in Florida and scuba-dived under the North Pole, but piloting an iceboat still gets his adrenaline pumping. |
It wasn't too long before I met people I knew who invited me to take an iceboat for a spin or, in this instance, a slide. |
Also on the ice was the Platter, a big iceboat built in 1880 from huge planks taken from an old windmill. |
The sails were lowered and they went ashore to stretch their legs, for sitting on the iceboat rather cramped them. |