Ice Sailing in Estonia / Jääpurjetamine Eestis

This looks like a Formula 1 race on ICE!
These sailors are racing boats on ice at speeds exceeding 80km/h. Filmed at Saaremaa, Estonia at the end of March 2018.
Author: Indrek Velthut / kopterid.ee

[@mathewhale3581]

Stunning location Looks like a shallow, summertime lagoon and beach

[@alexvolpe2575]

This should be an Olympic sport!

[@SailorBarsoom]

The Winter Games aren't as crowded with events as the Summer Games. There's room for this. I'd love to see it.

[@SailorBarsoom]

I'm now fifty-four years old, and since my late teens or early twenties I've wanted to create a fictional culture of *ice sailor tribes.* For a novel, a role-playing game, a comic book... I almost didn't care, I just want my ice sailor tribes. They would live in scattered habitable areas (oasis? islands?) in an otherwise frozen wasteland and ice boats would be their primary means of transport. Think of them as Inuit with ice boats instead of dogs, or Laplanders with ice boats instead of reindeer. Think of them as "frozen Polynesians," as if the mariners who first discovered Hawaii had missed and wound up in Alaska or Siberia instead, and adjusted to the cold. Currently, I've got them on a tide-locked planet, with a frozen nightside where the sun never rises. We'll see if I make anything of it at last.

[@artrageousproductions5043]

SB Ice sailors ARE tribal certainly here in the midwest with groups/ clubs in various geographic locations ever heard of Lake Minnetonka and its '' Tonka Tribe ??

[@SailorBarsoom]

@@artrageousproductions5043 If I ever get anything going with the story, I need to talk to some of you guys.

[@scruffles3838]

Hmmmm.... I'm Totally not blatantly stealing this idea down for my own use in building interesting locations for ttrpg settings

[@SailorBarsoom]

@@scruffles3838 Good luck with it. I've managed to get the queen abducted and the king is being dragged behind the boat on a rope, trying to pull himself aboard so he can rescue her. I've got two young lovers making their escape through a chaotic terrain, with their pursuers crashing into house-sized chunks of ice (think Han Solo's asteroid field). I've got the queen teaching J-pop to a bunch of bundled-up children; this will later become a clue for the king, letting him know his wife has been there.

[@anlemeinthegame1637]

I'd read this book.

[@dnswedense]

Can't wait for next winter to arrive! This is so addictive!

[@MowMud]

This looks like a pure rush! I come from the land of ice and snow. I have all the components to build one, and this coming summer, figure I'll try to throw something together. Ya gotta have something to do in the winter... I don't care if it takes all summer to do it.. Excellent video, thanks for the inspiration.

[@olivei2484]

Build it right and have wheels for summer and skates for winter! There are old style ones with a jib too.

[@MowMud]

@@olivei2484 Wheels? Summertime, I'll take the mast and sail and put it back on the boat I borrowed it from. Sail on.

[@gunnargronvall9385]

The two person ice boat looks like the ones sailing in Sweden in the 60 ties

[@CUBETechie]

Is it possible that people in the ice age use ice yachting to go on other parts of the world?

[@franciscoandres4907]

Now there's a book waiting to be written.

[@GC987]

Fantastic !

[@dn.196]

Super!!!

[@willsiman1144]

Väga äge video! Spordist rääkimata

[@brianthe3rd]

cool!

[@MrAM4D3U5]

I hate this overused background track so much

[@davidrhp847]

Best to mute.

[@johntucker2826]

How come the sun is shining ... its nighttime almost all the time in the winter in Estonia ....

[@user-vw4xs2xp9v]

우왕 ~,.~