![]() Skeeters go fast, and speed thrills more on ice than on any other surface. And Skeeters certainly look sexy - which, for $12,000, they should.īut let's not kid ourselves. Part of the allure of a Skeeter is that it is a development class boat you can fiddle with it and change any dimension except sail area, which must be 75 square feet. A lot of people start out on little DNs or apprentice on Nites and Renegades, but all winter sailors aspire to pilot a Skeeter. ![]() Skeeters are the ultimate iceboat design, the Ferraris of hard-water sailing. ![]() Already, in two weekends of low-key racing, the new boat has won four of its seven races. Honeybucket 8 he calls her, and she's news for two reasons: Mattison is arguably the best iceboat building in the world, and his new design represents a quantum leap in Skeeter construction. And if he walks a little stiffly, if his lower back is a little sore, it's because he's spent most of the last four months in his garage on Williamson Street, laboring over his first new iceboat in four years. Under loose-fitting, sawdusted and epoxy-stained dungarees, the body is lean and hard. Note: The following sports article by David Medaris appeared in the January 8, 1988, edition of Isthmus.Īfter more than 50 years of catching cold winter wind in his face, it's not surprising that Bill Mattison looks so young - as if, from the neck up, age has been cryogenically slowed. Mattison checks the shell of his 'rocket ship.' ![]()
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