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Is your local lake frozen over? Try ice boating

Ice boat racer and sailor, Ray Gauthier, 72, sails across the ice at Claiborne Cove, in Claiborne, Md., on Monday. The unusually long stretch of subfreezing temperatures created optimal conditions in an area where the water rarely freezes. (Wesley Lapointe for NPR)
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Ice boat racer and sailor, Ray Gauthier, 72, sails across the ice at Claiborne Cove, in Claiborne, Md., on Monday. The unusually long stretch of subfreezing temperatures created optimal conditions in an area where the water rarely freezes. (Wesley Lapointe for NPR)

NPR’s Frank Langfitt discusses his adventures ice boating on the Chesapeake Bay with Here & Now‘s host Peter O’Dowd.

 

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