Links

World of Stone Skipping

• Pennsylvania Qualifying Stone Skipping Tournament – aka the Oillies
• www.skimwales.com – Official web site of the Wales Open Stone Skimming Championship
• International Association of Swirling – Interestingly these use glass “stones”
• Russ ‘Rock Bottom’ Byars - Current Guinness Record holder (with footage of skip)
• John Skippy Kolar - Documentary on infamous Mackinac stone skipper
• German Wikipedia Stone Skipping Site – The Physics of skipping a stone
• How do you skim a stone 51 times? – News story from the BBC.
• Library of Congress Research Center – How does a stone “skip” across water?
• PhysicsWeb – The mystery of the skipping stone
• The physics of stone skipping - American journal of physics, v. 71, Feb. 2003: 150-55. Bocquet, L
• Article on skipping Stones in Russia - ????? ? ????: ?????? ????????? ????????? ????
• How to skip a stone – In Russian
• NPRs All Things Considered - Michelle Norris  ‘Skipping Stones for the Win’

Stone Skipping in Print

• Clanet, C., F. Hersen, and L. Bocquet.  Secrets of successful stone-skipping.  Nature, v. 427, Jan. 1, 2004: 29.
• Hirano, Y., and K. Miura, Water impact accelerations of axially symmetric bodies.  Journal of spacecraft and rockets, v. 7, June 1970: 762-764.
• Lorenz, R. D.  Spinning flight: dynamics of frisbees, boomerangs, samaras and skipping stones.  New York, Springer, 2006.  346 p.
• Sandifer, Norene.  The art of rock skipping : how, where, and why to skip. Seattle, WA, Sasquath Books, c2004.  16p. + 1 stone. Back cover is a container holding “the perfect stone”

Mackinac Island Links

• The Grand Hotel – Unofficial Sponsor
• Hotel Iroquois – on the beach
• Island House – Run by Todd ‘Mussels’ Calleweart (2000 Winner)
• Horn’s Gaslight Bar – Unofficial watering hole for MISS&GC
• Shepplers Ferry – Unofficial Ferry Line for MISS&GC
• Mackinac Island Chamber of Commerce – Unofficial Sponsor
• Mackinac Living Magazine
• Harts Haven Resort
• Windermere Hotel – Unofficial staff headquarters
• Mackinac Island local radio station – Unofficial broadcaster of stone skipping