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Preserving and Sailing the Historic Gaff Rigged Ice Yachts of New York's Hudson River Valley

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Ice Yachting on the Hudson River
An Exposition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Home, Library, and Museum
Hyde Park NY 12538

Sunday, December 21, 2014 -- Friday, January 2, 2015

Opening reception at the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center
 Sunday, December 21, 2014 --  2 pm

Introductory remarks by:

Lynn Bassanese, Director of the FDR Library (National Archives)
Sarah Olson, Supt. of Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Site (National Park Service)
Wint Aldrich, Historian

FDR's ice yacht "HAWK" will be on display in the Visitor Center Lobby
Historic ice yachts of the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club fleet will also be on display in front of the FDR Library


HAWK sketch courtesy of Reid Bielenberg


"I enclose two copies of prints enlarged from a Kodak, showing me at the helm of the ice yacht HAWK. I suggest that you have
this framed and hung on the wall over the spars. It can be labeled 'FDR at helm of ice yacht HAWK off Roosevelt Point, 1905'."
Photo and quoted text courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York.

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October 2014

Sedgwick, Maine


Sunsets that do not quit -- more pictures below.

 

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Thundershower moving across Blue Hill Bay as viewed from our wild blueberry field.


Interesting local atmospheric thermodynamics -- The campfire lights up and sends a hot plume high in the air,
then cools off allowing the smoke to become trapped in the cold air inversion draining off the top of the hill.

 


 

I have switched this page into "Summer Mode" --
See the Archived Pages for news of recent Iceboating activity.


Will earning his ribbon at the annual log sawing and axe throwing contest.


Fall Foliage nears its peak on Columbus Day along the coast of Maine.

 

Columbia County Airport, Ghent, NY -- 1B1 - 123.050 / 132.825 / 133.525


N13JS -- Bombardier Global 5000 (
BD-700-1A11 ) awaiting crew and passengers.


N163PH --Sportstar SL Light Sport Aircraft -- fun and economical.


N34KF -- 1951 Cessna P210 Centurion with O&N 450 hp Rolls Royce turboprop modification -- 2200 feet per minute climb capability!
 


Drawing by Reid Bielenberg


Current Jetstream Forecast and Surface Conditions -- Image by Environment Canada


 


The Brooklin Town Band entertains the crowd.


Will and John work the two man saw event.

 

A small public airport with a great mix of aeronautical activity.


Hot Air Balloon in the early stages of inflation -- a wind shift kept it on the ground.


N7072N -- 1967 Beech V35A Bonanza -- looks like new!


N804RB --1944 Boeing E75 Stearman Biplane -- a former "Red Baron Squadron" plane now owned by the on site Parker-O'Malley Air Museum.
 


Drawing by Reid Bielenberg

 

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Wreck of the Galatea Archive

December 26, 2011 Archive     December 15, 2011 Archive

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Northern Hemisphere 850 Temp  Regional Summary -- NY, NJ, CT, MA 5 Image 2 Day Forecast Maps
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IDNIYRA Ice Conditions Reports

Saratoga Lake Ice Report

Yahoo Group  "IceReports"

 

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photo Copyright Brian Reid, December 2002

 


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HRIYC.ORG is neither the official website, nor am I the webmaster, of the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club. I am a long standing member of the Club and during the sailing season  I frequently post photographs and information on this, my own personal website, about current iceboating activity in the Hudson Valley and beyond. I am the sole person responsible for the presentation of content and the opinions expressed herein. Interesting photographic contributions are welcome and appreciated -- I spend most of my time on the ice skippering and far too often fail to capture the best images of the day.                    ŠJohn A. Sperr MMXIV