An iceboat is a recreational or competition sailing craft supported on metal runners for traveling over ice. One of the runners is steerable. Originally, such craft were boats with a support structure, riding on the runners and steered with a rear blade, as with a conventional rudder. As iceboats evolved, the structure became a frame with a seat or cockpit for the iceboat sailor, resting on runners. Steering was shifted to the front.
David Vinckboons: Landscape with skaters (cca. 1615), 17th century boer type iceboats
Ice boat on Saint Lawrence River, Quebec City, c. 1858–1860
Classic iceboats on the Hudson River at Barrytown, NY
Ice Boating in Toledo, Ohio
Land sailing, also known as sand yachting, land yachting or dirtboating, entails overland travel with a sail-powered vehicle, similar to sailing on water. Originally, a form of transportation or recreation, it has evolved primarily into a racing sport since the 1950s.
An early 20th-century sail wagon in Brooklyn, New York
Carriage with sail in China, 1599.
Land yachts designed by Simon Stevin in 1600
The "Zephyr" landsailing rover, a concept for a wind-propelled rover on the surface of Venus. Image from NASA John Glenn Research Center, for the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts ("NIAC") project.
