sail

1. verb, to operate an ice boat over a frozen body of water; 2. noun, ‘sailing’

1.
“When I was a youngster, I used to spend all my weekends on the ice all the time, because I was a sailor and I used to sail iceboats.”

“That’s the sort of stuff that intrigued me, you know, being outdoors, sailing on the ice.”

“This fellow sold it to me, and we put it on the ice, and we used to sail across over to here, and then we’d sail back to the yacht club and back and forth. The one day I sailed from the yacht club to Garden Island in a minute and 45 seconds.”

“I had five iceboats, ice yachts, at one time. One of my relatives on Garden Island gave me one of the old, well, it’s called a T-boat … It was up in the sail loft up there. She said, ‘Well when you get it out you can have it and sail it’. So I got it out, and I sailed it. It was huge, and it had a big basket on it. It was shaped like a ‘T’ and the basket was at the back, on the stern of it. And you could lie down and steer with the tiller over your shoulder.”

2.
“There was track and field. I got involved in that too. Then there was basketball, and then there was sailing on the ice, so you can see I didn’t have that much time to do my French, my math, my physics.”