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Gaff Rigged, Madison Style Iceboat
View across ice towards two people in an iceboat on Lake Mendota.
Iceboat on Lake
Group of people with an iceboat on a frozen lake (possibly Lake Michigan).
Iceboats on Lake
View across ice towards the crews of ice yachts standing near their iceboats. There are seventeen or eighteen iceboats, and their are numbers on the sails.
Iceboat
1953
Jim Lunder and another man dressed in heavy winter clothing sit on the iceboat "Fritz" on frozen Lake Monona (?).
Iceboating
March 1916
Kurt Ruedebusch and Joe Mills pose in Ernst Schmidt's iceboat on frozen Lake Mendota. Ernst Schmidt was an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin at the time.
