| Sail Wear
- Bob Muhs
on 1/25/2005 |
| Doesn`t the sail tend to rub quite a bit on the side stays causing damage to the fabric? |
| RE: Sail Wear
- Burnie
on 1/26/2005 |
| One of the sails we are using is over 30 years old and has been on an Ice Tender for 3 seasons and shows no signs of wear from the back stays. The sail is rarely resting against the stays when sailing. On an iceboat the leeward stay goes completely slack and has no tension on it. Iceboats do not lean so the mast must pivot, so you never have more than the front stay and one side stay actually doing work at a time. |
| Load limits?
- Jas
on 5/4/2005 |
| Several years ago my friend and I built a pair of Iceflyers and have since been having more fun with them than should be legal. I occasionally have people that want me to take them for a ride and with an iceflyer, that is of course impracticle. We are wanting to build a 2 seater for next winter and the Icetender looks like a good simple boat for that purpose. My question is twofold.....
First, the boat looks quite lightly constructed, can it support two full sized adults? Or just an adult and a smallish child as the photos show? And second, assuming the boat can handle that much weight, the recomended sail size at 48 sq ft (4+ sq m) looks kind of small for maybe 400lb/200kg of occupants. I was thinking something at least half again as large, based on how our other boats perform. What has been your experience and what do most guys use in this application? |
| RE: Load Limits
- Burnie
on 12/14/2005 |
| We have had 2 200lbs guys in the Ice Tender at the same time. You are right you are not going to be doing 45mph, but we did have it up over 30mph. The sail has always been move than enough at 45sqft. |