Comments on: Not nice ice http://blog.greenbird.co.uk/2010/01/29/not-nice-ice/ The Ecotricity Greenbird in world wind-powered speed record challenge Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:38:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jörgen http://blog.greenbird.co.uk/2010/01/29/not-nice-ice/comment-page-1/#comment-2831 Jörgen Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:30:43 +0000 http://blog.greenbird.co.uk/?p=442#comment-2831 Hi Richard, congrats on the land speed record and to an exciting project. I do some ice sailing (skatesail + DN iceboat) in the south of Sweden and I absolutely sympathize with your quest for black, perfect ice. You probably already concluded that to break the ice record, your main problem will be to find perfect surface conditions that will coincide with favorable winds and that is a real challenge. Maybe you need to set up a Global ice reporting network and have your craft on standby for airtransport? If you do, I usually have a good grip on ice conditions in the Scandinavian region with hands on experience in southern Sweden (i fly too), so drop me a mail if you need "Ice intelligence". Love for Sail/ Jörgen Hi Richard,
congrats on the land speed record and to an exciting project. I do some ice sailing (skatesail + DN iceboat) in the south of Sweden and I absolutely sympathize with your quest for black, perfect ice. You probably already concluded that to break the ice record, your main problem will be to find perfect surface conditions that will coincide with favorable winds and that is a real challenge. Maybe you need to set up a Global ice reporting network and have your craft on standby for airtransport? If you do, I usually have a good grip on ice conditions in the Scandinavian region with hands on experience in southern Sweden (i fly too), so drop me a mail if you need “Ice intelligence”.

Love for Sail/ Jörgen

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