So I watched an ice boat video the other day (which I will attempt to post!!!). It wasn't normal ice boating, although, that is bad ass on it's own. What was cool about the video, was that it was one boat against another on an oval track of ice. The boats did a certain amount of laps, and who ever crossed the line first won...SO SIMPLE! What was even cooler was the crowd of people gathered around watching and cheering! Now, it was a nice sunny day, but let's face it...it's ice boating...it's cold. It got me thinking, how can we create something like this on the water? (The thawed water of course!)
Well, My good friend Nick had an idea to try something similar in lasers after Wednesday night races. There is a nice "horse shoe" shaped area in front of the Yacht club, and if the breeze is right (and preferably ripping) it could make for some pretty entertaining sailing, regardless of if you are watching or sailing. But would it be bad ass? The ice boat rally race (that's what I'm going to call it) was bad ass, on a few levels. It was fun to watch, you don't have to know a thing about ice boating to enjoy it, and there was a sweet crash at the end (NASCAR what?!!?). Basically, it was a marketable event. Marketable to people who ice boat, and marketable to people have no clue what ice boating entails. So can doing something like this on sail boats be marketable? Will people get it? I'm still not sold. (Don't worry Nick, I love your idea and will help, it is a HUGE step in a new direction).
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