The winter storm and arctic chill that’s driven scores of New Yorkers indoors has given two retired FDNY firefighters a reason to head outside. Queens ice boat enthusiasts, Dan Mundy, 88, and his son ...

Overwintering in Greenland was never just about whether the boat would get crushed. The real danger was subtler: ice building ...

CLAIBORNE COVE, Maryland – Michael Keene grabs the wooden tiller of his ice boat, begins to push it across the ice and then leaps in as if he's launching a bobsled. Wind fills the white sail and his ...

I remember the first time when, driving from New York to Vermont in winter, I saw a confusing sight on Lake Champlain. A few boats were gliding across the lake, white sails full of wind-despite the ...

On a frozen stretch of Geneva Lake, ice boats skim across the surface when the wind cooperates. Instead of cutting through water, steel runners carve along the ice, and even a light breeze can send a ...