RED BANK, N.J., Feb. 9. -- The North Shrewsbury Ice Yacht Club won two important races to-day with the yachts Atalanta and Georgie, owned respectively by Newton Doremus and Charles P. Irwin.

Hard into the tall sail overhead smashes a fresh gust and up, up come your shoulders as the boat keels over with one runner high off the ice, ripping along at 40 m.p.h. That is ice boating ...

He sat as a passenger in Nathaniel Hayward’s refurbished 1938 ice sailing boat, whipping around Muskegon Lake, going between 20 to 30 mph. “You just have to be really brave to do it,” he said.