Thursday, February 9, 2023

What's under that ice?

Do you enjoy the sensation of your face hitting concrete at 25 mph? Do you get right back on your skateboard after a bad accident? If so, then ice sailing might be the thing for you! Ice is actually worse than concrete, and thus more exciting--it's hard as rock, but is also rough, with knobs and cracks and so forth, unlike concrete which at least tends to be flat.

For extra excitement, there's also the risk of breaking through thin ice and plunging into the icy darkness below. When you fall through thin ice, it's not like slipping into the kiddie end of the swimming pool. It's unexpected, and you start from 6 ft up (give or take), so your potential energy carries you at least six feet under, where you can easily be carried away from the hole by the currents. Thirty seconds is all you've got, at most, before you go into shock. After that, it's to sleep with the fishies (see pic).

So as you can see, ice sailing is at least as exciting as skateboarding in traffic or rollerblading on the highway.

In any case, we get to keep your money, because you've been warned.

NEWS FLASH: This Friday (Feb 10) is the deadline to apply as a sailing instructor for 2023. There are lots of perks to being an instructor--you don't have to follow club rules, you get paid in cash, you get to order people around, and if you screw up and someone is injured as a result, you get a frickin award for it! You can't lose!