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let's go , trying to promote it for westerns, close enough to mn to count. don't need passpport, just birth cert. so no westerns, who's going up, only 6.5 hrs, but don't speed on hwy 61 , just sightsee and avoid the wolves. two harbors has the cheapest gas. $49 for a cheaper rm, but food more expensive. it's really, really, really going to be epic!!! meyer

Truth be told, without J. D. and Jim McDonagh there never would have been a 2010 DN North American Championship regatta.

When nobody in the United States could find ice they jumped into Jim’s van, drove 6.5 hours north to Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, to scout for ice. The rest of the story is now history.

The class owes these two guys a huge debt of gratitude.

Thank you, JD. Thank you, Jim.

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Last evening, Sunday there were over 24" of optically clear ice under 4" of snow ice and 4-8 inches of water/slush/snow. The forecast seems to support the following case:

All of the remaining snow on Minnetonka, and other local lakes will melt over the next 48-60 hours, the water will drain, and we'll be left with 18-24 pretty darn good inches of ice, temperatures cold enough to kick anything remaining on Friday night and a Perfect Day of Iceboating Friday/Saturday and Sunday... of course there should be a concern for those pesky drain holes, be careful out there.

Heading home now, on the North Shore..

It was the ground hog day regatta. Friday we went out around 9:30 and waited till after 5:30pm.. then the light & variable breeze finally produced enough breeze out of the SW to set a line and a top mark. We started a race! You couldn't tell from the start line, but the breeze came in on the lake side. Many on the shore side starting line either noticed and tacked, or got barted.

We got in 3 gold and 3 silver today.... no wind till around 2:00pm. Right after the Thunder Bay Yacht Club came out to the pit area and delivered hot dogs to the fleet, the fleet did a 180 on the course and moved to the other end. The wind freshened up and the gold-silver-gold races were good. Plenty of pressure. About the time the second silver went down it was starting to lighten up. The third gold was at minimum wind and the top guy just got his lap in before the timelimit. The third silver for the day was light too.

Check out the gps track of our two scrub races

2010 Thunder Bay, Lake Superior
Wind about 10kts
28 February 2010
Scrub Racing
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2.2 km (1.36m) course length at 205 degrees
Top Speed 85.48km (53.5mph)

Click on the read more.. to load the google map track of the scrub races on Sunday, and the gpsactionreplay java applet..

Me and JD setup the course and ripped around twice and then did some more cruising..

The second Wayzata WIRC Oval is done, as it's out front of a great yacht club, and we are showing off boats, we named her "Bristol" 1/4 mile around, set perfect for today's winds.

Or for you stock car people, she's a high banked oval(in this case 4' snow banks), short and a little narrow, except the big jybe turn with optional safety run out.

There's the destination.. south end of Torch Lake, Mi..
2010 NA's.. hopefully the report later in the day today (friday) will be favorable and confirming the location.

Thunder Bay, Ontario

I just spoke with the Commodore of the Thunder Bay Yacht Club.
http://www.tbyc.on.ca

He is going to alert the local ice boaters to report in.

Evidently he lives right next to the bay and they have been out ice skating on it.

MODIS Yesterday

Thick enough to drive on, very large raw area to work with...

hmmm...

no snow! more then 12" of ice! course over 1 mile!

[when I talked to JD he said ya can set a three mile beat! A fantastic sheet!"

This is the event to improve your world ranking!

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the Balance of the content in this post is dated!

Dang it.. now it's getting really serious..

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RE: DN North American Championships NOR

« Reply #8 on: Today at 04:29:56 PM »

The chatter about ice is slim to none on all sites. What gives? How about hearing form Indiana or the top of the Lower Peninsula in Michigan near Traverse City? What happened to the ice in Ontario last night? If there are no ice reports, at least I know to have a passport and numbers on my sail...

There is a track, almost a half mile oval plowed in Wayzata Bay... winds are forecast to reach 5mph this afternoon,

Launch at the fire lane near Sailing School.

Could be great fun for the WYC Winter Party... note this is a sailing opportunity, may be enough breeze to let rookies sail on the course.

Who's in?

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Article by Barry Newman, Photos by Gretchen Dorian... Nice Story, it's generally accurate, if you don't count The IceMaker's long string of successfully scheduled and held Western Challenge and Fire on Ice Events.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142405274870335710457504581100...

nice to see words from iceboating.net forums in a WSJ Article.

Carpe DN

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