2026 ICEBOATING WRAP-UP

GROOVIN' ALONG BARNEGAT BAY
AT SHORE ACRES YACHT CLUB

Groovin’ along the Barnegat Bay ice with Shore Acres Yacht Club, above, courtesy Peter Slack Films. (Sound up!)

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Winter sports fans have may have moved inside to catch the Milan/Cortina Olympic Games on NBC, and the ice on our rivers and bay is melting (as are the impenetrable glaciers along our walks and driveways), but Peter Slack was on the scene to capture some of the action the past couple of weeks on Barnegat Bay and up at the Navesink River. There, the North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club competed against the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club for the 135-year-old Van Nostrand Cup.

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Shore Acres #2 and a GoPro camera tumble after dedicated service to give us this outstanding point of view.

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AFTER 135 YEARS, RED BANK ICE BOATERS RELINQUISH CUP (REDBANKGREEN)

The checkered flag waves to signal the end of the first heat in the Van Nostrand Cup ice boat race on the Navesink River. (Photo by Brian Donohue for RedBankGreen)

For the first time since 1891, Red Bank’s home team ice boaters, the North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club, will have to hand back one of the oldest trophies in sports to the New York club that created it.
READ FULL COVERAGE AT REDBANKGREEN.COM

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CLASS A STERN STEERERS BATTLE FOR CUP

And now with all that settled and winter begins its slow thaw, we await the springtime races and catch up on Peter Slack Films’ Coastal Queen restoration series, where a Chesapeake Bay Buy Boat built in 1928 modified in the late 1950's to a cruiser begins a full restoration to return it to full commission.  The series follows the process from the bottom up, as a new keel, keelson and cross planking are needed to support this massive structure.

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BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

Too late for inclusion in our last compilation of iceboating on the Toms River was this nicely done video package showcasing members of the Hess family, Pine Beach, in their DN Class iceboat, courtesy Doug Hood at the Asbury Park Press.

Also, a cool drone-shot short of more DN-ers around Island Heights by Kevin Doherty, found here.

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