For most folks, Friday was a tough day to be outside. For members of the North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club, however, it was perfect. For the first time since 2018, the Navesink River was frozen ...

That is ice boating, a sport as old in the U. S. as the meeting in the cellar of John Vassar’s brewery at Poughkeepsie where his cronies formed the first ice yachting club in America in 1861 ...

but he discovered the thrill of ice boating and later brought two Hudson River boats to Lake Minnetonka. In 1899, the Minnetonka Ice Yacht Club was incorporated with Theodore Wetmore as commodore.