All smiles after a fun ride across Lake Mendota, February 1980

All smiles after a fun ride across Lake Mendota, February 1980.

Make a plan to show up at the Edgewater Hotel on Lake Mendota this weekend (February 4-5, 2023) for this year’s edition of the Clean Lakes Alliance Frozen Assets festival.

In addition to all of the activities, displays and exhibits, you’ll have a rare opportunity to see the Mary B where she belongs—on the ice! Volunteers from the Ice Boat Foundation will be there to show her off and tell you everything you want to know (and more) about this legendary icon of Madison’s long and storied history of iceboating. Mary B was designed and built right here in 1948 by Carl Bernard and Frank Tetzlaff for O. T. Havey. Skippered by Carl Bernard and Jimmy Payton, she was the fastest thing on the ice.