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 ...

where ice boating was originally popular, were purchased by Lake Minnetonka residents and shipped to Lake Minnetonka.The Minnetonka Ice Yacht Club, built in 1899 on what is now Bug Island ...