An excerpt from a story on Ice Boat.org
Renegade Ice Boating


"I happened to be at Mt. Clemens when the group from the Detroit News workshop brought out the original DN iceboats they had just finished building. Only a few of the fellows were sailors, and very few iceboat sailors. The wind was blowing a good 25 mph with gusts over 30 mph. The inexperienced sailors wanted to see their boats sail and asked some of the experienced sailors to sail them."

I also remember watching some old film clips of that, but I can't remember where. Somewhere on the web.