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Another First in Minnesota Ice Sailing, A Minnesota Sailor is competing someplace in Europe in the DN World Championships beginning this weekend...

John Dennis, DN US 4691, With a Second Place last Month on Lake Pepin, MN in the North American Championships, JD is Currently ranked #2 in the World will be seeking to improve his status by just one place... Sail Fast!

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Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 07:05 pm: at http://www.icesailing.org/ by IDNIYRA WORLD COMMODORE Niklas Müller-Hartburg OE 221

(OE is to KA as AUT is to AUS ) :)

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Dear friends,

this is a pre-information about the situation for WC 2008 and EC 2008.

I’m right now (Monday, 11.02.2008) in the ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki.

I started on Friday from Vienna to Peter Münnich to Salzburg from where we went Saturday and Sunday to Sandviken / Arsunda in Sweden. At this time Arsunda was the only information with sailable ice I had and I wanted to see this myself. The information about the ice was correct. Thick ice with slush on it. When we arrived on Sunday afternoon, the ice was wet and the slush was really deep and very, very wet. In the night there were about -2°C which caused that the slush became hard and on some places double-ice.
The most important problem is accommodation there. Next available hotel is about 35 km away !
But anyway – Thanks to Dag Lindström and the Swedish group to make such an effort to host us !

Sunday evening I got informations from Reko that they sailed at the weekend near Kouvola in Finland on Lappalan Järvi. Ice conditons seemd to be good, and what is not normal in Finland there is ac-commodation around 10 km available. So we decided to go to Finland and have a look on the ice there.

Driving to the ferry I had some phonecalls and got information from Tomasz Zakrzewski that at Lake Siemianowka where the juniors will have their event the next days exists good ice and accommodation within 20 Minutes to drive.

I will get better information tomorrow morning about iceconditions there and probably stop my investigations in Finland to turn back and go to Poland (via Tallinn).

This is not a final decision (not even any decision).
This is just for information. Unfortunately I can’t tell you anything where we will go to and I can’t exclude any place at this stage.

Regards, hopefully we will meet on good ice !!!

THINK ICE

Niklas
OE 221
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Niklas is going to have over 1,600 miles in when he gets to Lake Siemianowka, In Poland, for what may be suitable conditions, with an alternate site a scant 800 miles North, in Finland, crossing 4 international borders and a small ferry ride, to what looks like a viable alternate site. that is, he could easily see a 3,000 mile trip to the regatta...

WOW, this hasn't even started yet.

The 550 mile drive from Lake Minnetonka to Lake Wawasee seems pretty close, when compared to Iceboating in Europe this week.