There’s an unusual sport practiced in the northern United States, and the season only starts when winds start blowing and the temperature drops below zero degrees Celsius. The sport is called ice boating. Clement Chua, who comes from a much warmer climate, is learning all about ice boating. He is an exchange student from Singapore and attends the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chua signed up for an ice boating class because he wanted to do something he could not do at home. “Ice boating is a most unique class,” he says. One experienced ice boater calls the sport “ephemeral.” In other words, the conditions for ice boating do not happen very often. And when the conditions are right, they are not right for very long. “You can go weeks in the winter when you can’t go ice boating,” says 81-year-old Lloyd Roberts. Roberts has been ice boating for 40 years. He says dedicated ice boaters make the sport a major event in their lives, just after funerals and weddings. The capital of ice boating in the United States is now the northeastern state of Maine. It once was New Jersey. But the capital moved north because Maine has warmer winters than before, and New Jersey’s winters are sometimes too warm for good ice to form. Maine gets cold enough in the winter that lakes and ponds will freeze, but it is no longer so cold that the ponds are covered with snow.
Title: Ice Boats Race Like the Wind
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/807/sport_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Ice Boats Race Like the Wind' data-article-id='1218'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='15896'>There’s an unusual sport practiced in the northern United States, and the season only starts when winds start blowing and the temperature drops below zero degrees Celsius.</span> <span data-start-time='15896' data-end-time='19771'>The sport is called ice boating.</span> <span data-start-time='19771' data-end-time='28229'>Clement Chua, who comes from a much warmer climate, is learning all about ice boating. </span> <span data-start-time='28229' data-end-time='36479'>He is an exchange student from Singapore and attends the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</span> <span data-start-time='36479' data-end-time='43792'>Chua signed up for an ice boating class because he wanted to do something he could not do at home. </span> <span data-start-time='43792' data-end-time='48813'>“Ice boating is a most unique class,” he says.</span> <span data-start-time='48813' data-end-time='54896'>One experienced ice boater calls the sport “ephemeral.” </span> <span data-start-time='54896' data-end-time='62000'>In other words, the conditions for ice boating do not happen very often. </span> <span data-start-time='62000' data-end-time='67771'>And when the conditions are right, they are not right for very long.</span> <span data-start-time='67771' data-end-time='76292'>“You can go weeks in the winter when you can’t go ice boating,” says 81-year-old Lloyd Roberts.</span> <span data-start-time='76292' data-end-time='80813'>Roberts has been ice boating for 40 years. </span> <span data-start-time='80813' data-end-time='91479'>He says dedicated ice boaters make the sport a major event in their lives, just after funerals and weddings.</span> <span data-start-time='91479' data-end-time='98875'>The capital of ice boating in the United States is now the northeastern state of Maine.</span> <span data-start-time='98875' data-end-time='102063'>It once was New Jersey. </span> <span data-start-time='102063' data-end-time='114063'>But the capital moved north because Maine has warmer winters than before, and New Jersey’s winters are sometimes too warm for good ice to form.</span> <span data-start-time='114063' data-end-time='125125'>Maine gets cold enough in the winter that lakes and ponds will freeze, but it is no longer so cold that the ponds are covered with snow.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' 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