{"id":17290,"date":"2020-01-09T09:58:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T14:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=17290"},"modified":"2020-02-06T16:04:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T21:04:50","slug":"out-of-your-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/out-of-your-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Your Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 326px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=wg20_flipbook_for_issuu.com&amp;pageNumber=26&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Embrace the spirit of <b>opposites<\/b>.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Winterguide 2020<\/p>\n<p><em>By Amelia Stern<\/em><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Assumption No. 1. Sailing is for rich people in the summer. <\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17332 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wg20-out-fo-your-lane-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"wg20 out fo your lane\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wg20-out-fo-your-lane-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wg20-out-fo-your-lane.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wg20-out-fo-your-lane-200x140.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>T<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\"><strong>he Chickawaukie Ice Boat Club<\/strong> in Rockland builds, sails, and races iceboats on lakes all over Maine. \u201cIceboats are more like airplanes than boats,\u201d says Bill Buchholz. \u201cPeople don\u2019t realize how different the dynamics are from regular sailing. You push and run beside it before jumping in. As you accelerate, your sail becomes a wing. Iceboats don\u2019t sail well slowly. We\u2019re talking 50 miles per hour. On smooth ice, you\u2019re going so fast and it\u2019s so quiet you feel the illusion of flight. It\u2019s magical.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Assumption No. 2. Humans are supposed to walk dogs.<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><em><strong>Skijoring<\/strong><\/em> is a mashup of cross country skiing and dog-sledding. Dogs pull their human companions (let\u2019s face it, freight) directly through rope and harness. A <em>skijoring<\/em> dog team hits 15 miles per hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">Or, saddle up for equestrian <em>skijoring<\/em>. \u201cParticipants hit 35 mph,\u201d event organizer for <strong>Skijor Skowhegan<\/strong> Mary Haley says. For competitions, riders tack on cowboy hats, fringed chaps, and bandanas. Instead of lasso-ing a cow, they\u2019re dragging a skier over a 1,000-foot stretch of snow. \u201cWe encourage the costume element. Out west, where <em>skijoring<\/em> is mainly practiced, that\u2019s the riding culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Somerset Snowfest<\/strong> in Skowhegan is the only venue to host the sport in Maine. Participant Hannah Novaria says, \u201cI hope more people will start doing it once they see how fun it is. The crowd gets so hyped as you race around as fast as you possibly can. It\u2019s something different for the horses, too.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Assumption No. 3. Hockey is a legalized form of assault for<br \/>\n(mostly) caustic young goons.<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The streets may be covered in ice, but Portland\u2019s seniors are on fire in <strong>Greater Portland Oldtimers Hockey League<\/strong>. \u201cUsually six out of the 20 playing are in their 70s. Our oldest is 76,\u201d says league member Dick Douty, 69. \u201cI\u2019ve been active since the 1980s.\u201d This league doesn\u2019t discriminate against age, and it doesn\u2019t discriminate against gender either. \u201cWe have a woman goalie and two women who play regularly. They\u2019re tougher than the boys. They push us around.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">S<\/span><span class=\"s1\">ince 1993, league runner Gordon Wakelin has run the <strong>Old Fart Classic <\/strong>hockey tournament at <strong>Troubh Ice Arena <\/strong>every September and April. \u201cWe run special fundraising tournaments when some of our own fall on hard times\u2014like when teammate Mike Lemieux was paralyzed in a bicycle accident, when TIA arena employee Gary Ingalls was dealing with terminal brain cancer, or when former Deering HS athletic director Bill Flaherty\u2019s daughter Molly died just 19 days after her birth. We come together each time to help. We also fundraise for the Barbara Bush Children\u2019s Hospital and the Travis Roy Foundation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Assumption No. 4. Flying kites is for babies.<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSpiritual by default, <strong>snowkiting<\/strong> will make you dig deeper,\u201d says Zebulon Jakub, owner of <strong>Kiteboard New England<\/strong>. Skiers or snowboarders use giant kites to glide across snow or ice and get extra power over large jumps. \u201cThe inherent risk forces you to learn personal responsibility, which runs into all parts of your life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">Jakub\u2019s scaled<strong> Mt. Washington<\/strong> multiple times with his snow kite. \u201cIt\u2019s usually really relaxing, almost like I\u2019m getting away with murder\u2014I\u2019m doing something so rare.\u201d Which is why you need an instructor. \u201cI warn people that this is one of the easiest-looking sports with one of the hardest learning curves. But if you want to get out of your head and leave your arguments or bills behind, snowkiting lets you do that. After a day out on the snow, I come home a better person, husband, and father.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flip the script while enjoying your favorite winter sports.<br \/>\nBy Amelia Stern<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[661,659,660,667,669,664,663,658,666,662,665,668],"class_list":["post-17290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-chickawaukie-ice-boat-club","tag-ice-boat","tag-iceboat","tag-kiteboard-new-england","tag-mt-washington","tag-old-fart-classic","tag-oldtimers-hockey-league","tag-skijoring","tag-snowkiting","tag-somerset-snowfest","tag-troubh-ice-arena","tag-zebulon-jakub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17469,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17290\/revisions\/17469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}