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One-hour Drive

  It is a short drive from Milwaukee to Fond du Lac! [about an hour’s drive] For that matter it is only about another 1.5 hours drive to get to Fond du Lac from the great city of Chicago. There are direct flights from Helsinki to Chicago.  The organizing team […]

Hiberna in USA

Duane Waltz of The U.S.A’s only authorized dealer of Hiberna’s fleet of hi-tech Iceboards | Fish Lake Iceboards paid a brief visit to Rhode Island last week. He was on his way to Bic Sport North America in West Wareham, Massachusetts to pick up some Stand Up Paddleboards for Fish Lake […]

Starstruck!

I walked into Island Sports (Island Surf & Sport – 86 Aquidneck Avenue Middletown, RI 02842, 401-846-4421) today. For many years it was the largest and most prestigious windsurfing (and other) store in the northeast. With the decline of windsurfing (BTW that is apocryphal) and the sale of the store […]

STS Wings

These are from Sweden Team Rider Jenny Back.This is what you get when you mix the Short Track Slalom [STS] with wings 🙂      

Finell in Newport

Kitewing CEO Martin Finell recently visited Newport, Rhode Island and Lake Sunapee New Hampshire for meetings and plans regarding the coming year at Kitewing. Look for a fully revamped web site, new products, more dealers and a major campaign to get more people out sailing on ice & snow in […]

Kitewing is coming to America

   Martin Finell CEO of Kitewing arrived in the US last night to discuss plans for a North American product rollout. Today is a “lay day” for sight seeing and jet lag elimination. Meetings commence tomorrow.   We will keep you posted.

Lake Kodiak, AK Ice Report

Here are pix from a few hours ago. Devils Walk is compressed pan of peaks behind town where I went hiking today. Found a pond which will be great skating but too small for wings.     The rain which recently fell has exerted enough hydraulic pressure to pump warm […]