Chickawaukie Ice Boat Club

Thanks to everyone who sent their kind remembrances of Lloyd Roberts. Without a question iceboating would be nowhere near the success is it today in Maine without him. I met Lloyd on Chickie when I was a skate sailor. The DN’s looked so appealing, sailing fast upwind, laying down! I reached over to a group of them, just standing around as I learned later they are wont to do, ...

I met Lloyd about 1990. Inspired by a decrepit Skimmer on Clary Lake, a friend and I built an iceboat out of muffler tubing with a blue tarp sail.
In a gale of wind it went fast enough, the downside being that after a wreck it was impossible to beat it back into alignment. I have forgotten
how we connected, but Lloyd came to my farm to view the boat, sat in it, t...

I first met Lloyd and Bill on the ice at Damariscotta Lake many years ago now, I was skate sailing with a kite at my father had built, and watching the Iceboats fly by. After striking up a conversation with Lloyd and Bill I was offered to take a sail on a DN which I happily agreed to. As I remember, it was like sailing through a doorway that I could never return back through...

Lloyd Roberts died peacefully during an afternoon nap last week, a peaceful ending to a long and vital life, which was so much a part of my own. Lloyd was a skilled pathologist at Pen Bay, a solid father and husband, but he was also the most avid hobbyist I have ever known.
Strangely, we shared a deep passion for four hobbies: amateur radio, motorcycles, sliding-seat r...

Iceboating legend Lloyd Roberts died peacefully at home this past Wednesday. He’d had a few small strokes in recent months and on this particular day he laid down for a nap and never woke up.

It’s no exaggeration to say that without Lloyd’s guidance, support, deserved criticism and encouragement, iceboating in Maine wound not be what it is today. His influence was felt...