The first examples of using frozen tracts for sailing are from 17th century Netherlands. First boyers were used for transporting goods and people and did not resembled today's constructions. At the end of the 18th century, the slides appear in North America with Durch imigrees and the first recreative slide in the world is organized on the Hudson River in 1790. Ice sailing in Europe concentrates in Baltic countries and in Russia. First boyer regatta on 84 km distance takes place on the estuary of the Neva River in 1882. In 1928 Germany, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia create an European Union of Ice Sailing, joined in 1935 by Austria, Netherlands and Poland. In the years 1918-1939 ice sailing used to be very popular in Eastern Prussia. The most popular boyer used to be Monotype XV, a two-seater constructed in 1931 by an Estonian Erik von Holst. Very popular in Poland in the years 1960-1969 is a DN boyer, constructed by William D. Sarns in 1937 and called after the newspaper 'Detroit News'. The newspaper's editorial office announced a competition for a project of a one-seater boyer which would be both cheap and easily transported. Today the DN is the most popular construction all around the world. Polish sailors, like Piotr Burczynski and Stanislaw Macur, receive the highest awards in this discipline.