I've heard some terrible stories about ice boat crashes and the reasons were
steering failure (hit shore), operator inexperience and collisions with other
ice boats that were not seen due to the sail or just inattention.
A safety reminder: If you build a boat that has your legs straddeling anything
solid you better have a good seat belt arrangement too.
If you ever hit something hard you will slide forward rapidly and cause yourself
great injury.

DW
--- In wingboats@yahoogroups.com, "Jerry Frost" <jfrost@...> wrote:
>
> I've been poking around some big boat websites and have noticed there is
little to no information regarding the potential hazards and risks involved in
moving across a dry lake bed at speeds in excess of 80 mph with your butt
hanging less than a foot off the ground while being blown by high winds in
limited visiblity. Heck, that sounds like fun to me, but are there any reports
of accidents and their potential causes?
>
> Jerry
>