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Article: WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT

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January 24, 2003
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Portland Press Herald (Maine) Friday, January 24, 2003 Edition: Final Section: Local & State Page: 1B

Ice-boating enthusiasts are thrilled with the conditions on Sebago Lake, now a plane of ice so smooth it may even attract next month' s world championships. "Sebago Lake has the nicest sheet of ice on it that I have ever seen in the state of Maine in 20 years," said Lloyd Roberts of Rockland. "Large expanses of black glassy-smooth ice-you-can-see-your-face-in are really a treat." The frozen lake is an ideal surface for ice-boat racing, in which ice boats reach ...

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