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- From: uh311ae@sunmanager.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Henrik Klagges)
- Subject: Re: Ice-boards
- Message-ID: <uh311ae.727724264@sunmanager>
- Sender: news@news.lrz-muenchen.de (Mr. News)
- Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
- References: <1993Jan19.013539.26498@cs.rit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:37:44 GMT
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- IMHO, ice-boarding isn't terribly exciting, and more dangerous than
- windsurfing itself anyway. If I'd go onto the ice at all, I'd use
- one of the 'DN'-type ice skaters in which you ly (feet at the front,
- helmet at the back). They are essentially ice catamarans with a steerable
- front skater and can reach ridiculously high speeds (World record on a DN:
- 150+ km/h). I did it when I was living in the South of Germany, where the
- winters get frigging cold, so that all the lakes freeze.
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- DN's need very little wind to go very fast - you reach top speed already
- at 5 Bft (with a sail extremely flattened), with survival difficult at 6.
- The boat speed/wind speed ratio at force 4 is about 400% ...
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- Cheers, Henrik
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