Talk:Iceboat

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DN is actually one of the smallest (and cheapest) classes (60sqft sail vs 350 sqft sail in Class A) and it is not as fast as claimed in article.

The article on Malcolm Campbell says:

"He set his final land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on September 3, 1935, and was the first person to drive an automobile over 300 miles per hour (301.337 mph)."

This one says:

"The stern-steerer "Debutaunte," currently being rebuilt, was holder of the official land speed record for any vehicle when she was timed over a measured mile at 143 miles per hour on the ice of Lake Winnebago WI in 1938."

Someone is off by 301-143=158 mph or so and it isn't the Campbell one.

Henry H. Henry H. 04:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

articles to combine?
Ice yachting and this one, should they be combined? --83.219.124.36 (talk) 19:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, they should be combined. The Ice yachting article contains some very early iceboat history and would fit nicely before this article, however some checks need to made to avoid redundancy. The resulting article could use some serious editing and additional references (or deletions). Paulg-dn (talk) 21:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I believe Monotype XV is definately worth mentioning - http://www.monotype-xv.org/info/Monotype-XV.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.131.114.8 (talk) 18:54, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Boat speeds
The DN is by far the biggest iceboat class (in terms of number of members), and is faster than the article originally claimed. I've updated the speed claims, with references to speed measurements made by Bob Dill, current world land speed record holder. Bob is very well versed in making accurate speed measurements that are verifiable.

Modern DN speeds are higher than when Bob was making his measurements as the boats are continually being refined. Many DN sailors have entered what is affectionately called the "60 MPH club", and speeds over 70 mph have been measured on the race course using hand-held GPS (unfortunately not calibrated GPS like Bob Dill uses).

Paulg-dn (talk) 21:36, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

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Ice yachting
, thank you for your interest in this article. Take a look a the article, Ice yachting, which has a lot of overlapping material. Perhaps the scope of this article should be about the sailing craft and the scope of the other article should be about the practice of ice yachting. What do you suggest? HopsonRoad (talk) 00:46, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

The discussion, above, suggests that the two articles should be combined. I agree. They should also be moved to "Iceboat", per the discussion below, in my opinion. HopsonRoad (talk) 15:39, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Propose to move to "Iceboat" and merge with "Ice yachting"
Searching on "ice boat definition", the only site that uses "ice boat" is this article. It's the only place that I've ever seen it spelled this way. I propose to move the article to "Iceboat". HopsonRoad (talk) 23:23, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Also plan to merge with Ice yachting per discussion at Talk:Ice yachting. Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 17:10, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Help for move
Per the discussion, above, the proposed move of Ice boat to Iceboat appears to be uncontroversial. However, Iceboat is already a redirect to this article so this move is beyond my capability. Once the move is accomplished, I can do the mopping up to direct other articles to the new title. HopsonRoad (talk) 23:51, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I have tagged the redirect with WP:G6, which should allow this article to be moved. - - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 00:12, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Does that mean that an administrator will do the first steps, or is it up to me to follow Moving a page? Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 00:28, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * An administrator will delete the redirect which should allow you to do the page move per the article you linked :) - - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 00:30, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Article has been moved successfully for you - - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 11:38, 18 April 2020 (UTC)