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2. International DN - Wikipedia

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   The International DN is a class of iceboat. The name stands for Detroit News, where the first iceboat of this type was designed and built in the winter of 1936–1937. Archie Arrol was a master craftsman working in the Detroit News hobby shop, and together with iceboaters Joe Lodge and Norman Jarrait designed a racing boat they called the "Blue ...

3. Iceboat - Wikipedia

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   Boer Ice sailing in the Netherlands in 1938. An iceboat (occasionally spelled ice boat or traditionally called an ice yacht) is a recreational or competition sailing craft supported on metal runners for traveling over ice. One of the runners is steerable. Originally, such craft were boats with a support structure, riding on the runners and ...

4. Forces on sails - Wikipedia

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   Each sailing craft is a system that mobilizes wind force through its sails—supported by spars and rigging—which provide motive power and reactive force from the underbody of a sailboat—including the keel, centerboard, rudder or other underwater foils—or the running gear of an ice boat or land craft, which allows it to be kept on a course.

5. Northumberland Strait iceboat - Wikipedia

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   The boats bucked wind and tide among fields of sea ice. [2] The two primary routes for iceboats was between Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island and Caribou, Nova Scotia , (sometimes combined with a stop at Pictou Island, Nova Scotia ), and across the Abegweit Passage between Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island and Cape Jourimain, New Brunswick .

6. Jane Pegel - Wikipedia

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   In 1957, she changed to the International DN ice boat in 1957. In 1960, she became the first woman to win the annual International DN championship and she won her first North American championship in the class; she won again in 1963. While Pegel sometimes skis, during a 1965 interview published in Sports Illustrated, she noted

7. Sailing - Wikipedia

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   Sailing. Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites —to propel a craft on the surface of the water ( sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer ), on ice ( iceboat) or on land ( land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation . From prehistory until the second half of the ...

8. High-performance sailing - Wikipedia

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   High-performance watercraft that can exceed the speed of the true wind include sailing catamarans and foiling sailing craft. Ice boats and land-sailing craft are often able to do so. There are also wind-powered vehicles that can travel faster than the wind, such as the rotor-powered Blackbird, which are outside the scope of this article.

9. Traveller (nautical fitting) - Wikipedia

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   Traveller (nautical fitting) A traveller is a part of the rigging of a boat or ship that provides a moving attachment point for a rope, sail or yard to a fixed part of the vessel. It may take the form of anything from a simple ring on a metal bar or a spar to, especially in a modern yacht, a more complex "car" – a component with bearing ...