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Catching a Vacuum. An iceboat travels fastest across the wind-on what sailors call "a reach." Its speed results from the sail's efficiency as an airfoil -something like the wing on an airplane. Sailing directly downwind, an iceboat cannot exceed the wind's speed. On a reach, though, the wind produces a vacuum on the lee of the slightly slanting sail. This results in a strong forward force. As the sail pushes forward trying to eliminate the vacuum, an iceboat can attain fantastic speeds -up to five times the actual wind velocity. The ice sailor hauls...
...them: Pearson Corp.'s 17-ft. Tiger Cat ($1,795 without sails), which last year won the One-of-a-Kind Regatta against 39 other one-design small sailboats, and Catamaran Corp.'s 12-ft. Tiki ($995 without sails), which sleeps two, can be converted into an iceboat...
...rumor to the effect that an iceboat will be brought to Fresh Pond is found, on examination, to be false...
...juniors have launched a successful iceboat on the Charles river...
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