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We need a good source for vinyl lettering. Hull numbers are the new thing.

Anyone?

If you broke your boat or yourself, or if your pony threw you at the 2008 Challenge post a reply.

Seems like we had a lot of broken gear.

• John M. hurts his shoulder on a wild slide on friday
• Matt J. re-hurt his neck on friday bouncing around
• Adam K. broke his chock spinning out on friday
• Mike M. split his bow on friday
• Steve O. pulls apart the bottom skin on his new, full length boat on friday
• Tomek Z. removes both his chocks at the windward pin on saturday
• Berdnt Z. delaminated his plank on sunday
  

Were going the distance...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXMx4cUfidE

Sincerely,
Gavin Potts
sailordude@comcast.net

When someone decides that they want to build a DN, where do they go to find the plans? I know the IDNIYRA has plans, but are those the plans you want to use to build a super dialed program? Advice is always appreciated...

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I wonder if I can get some input on runner sharpening. I've been using a friends 72" or so belt sander and 100 grit belts (the only ones he has). I set it to 45 degrees and it seems to do a good job on my DN runners but is a little short for my Skeeter runners. I'm looking at buying or building a similar but longer set-up. Any advice? Also I have heard people mention stoning to touch up a slightly dull runner. What type stone do you use and what kind of jig do you use to maintain your 45 Degree edge? How about profile? Being a one set of runners guy, is there "standard" profile? If any

I would like to build a very cheap boat I bought a sunfish sailboat last summer for $35.00 and would like to use the mast and sail from it to build an iceboat. I have been an auto mechanic for the last 20 years and am a avid woodworker. Does anyone know of anybody doing this or any plans availible, Please help

Look at your plank as your boats suspension (your sail is your engine, masts your transmission and runners your tires). Although this is the way some of the top sailors here in Michigan set up their DN's, it really applies to most all boats. If you are using the Sarnes stud plate attachment system, you need to put thin washers (spacers) under the ends of the plates. This helps prevent the plank from rocking when attached to the boat. No matter what system you use, don't allow the plank to rock. The next thing you need to do is to mount the plank on your boat and load it up to sailors weight plus 30-40 lbs..

So I'm screwing around in the shop shimming my DN runners wondering how close the big shots runners are to being parallel. (by big shots I mean those guys that go by you really fast)
If I square my plank up with the wall that is 24' away and clamp my laser level to a runner, mark the wall, clamp it to the other runner, mark the wall and am off by an inch over the 24', that seems like a lot. But if you do a little trapezoidal math it figures out to be about .2 degrees off and it suddenly sounds much better. So obviously zero deviation over a vast distance is ideal, but...really...how much dev

Greetings,
Hopefully this isn't to redundant, I scanned posts back a year...

I am very interested in boating, almost bought a Slicer this morning... Anyway, With the cost of some boats starting in the 1000's what's a new boater to do. The money isn't really the problem but I don't want to over buy if it's only a few times a season which brings me to my first question. Now that Saint Paul, MN has snow and little ice is the season over before it started?

I am an experience furniture maker and novice welder with a substantial supply of tools and what I believe to be full plans to a DN60.

O.K. you guys are heading out to scream around up north, and I'm just getting around to gluing up my new plank.
I'm following the procedure written by Paul Goodwin on the DN BBS, I have the ash and clear pine slats cut planed, joined and glued to form the skins and core, and I have a good staight I-beam to clamp them to, but I don't feel I have a good handle on the amount of camber, expected spring back, and amount (if any) gull wing.
Anyone got 2 cents?

No, this isn't some new secret go fast experiment. It's actually JD cutting up a perfectly good DN plank for use on an Opti. It's been said that he's also planning on cutting down his Skeeter plank for use on his Nite, and cutting down his Nite plank for use on his DN.

Here is a short video of mast layup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUQ9K4xNrIA

Enjoy

Smokestack
DN1313
Ice Hole Racing team

This crap will all be purged from the site today. Don't bother with any more.

It's that sad time of the year when we put our iceboats away for the season. Here's a few of the things to check and do prior to storage:
1. I put a thin coat of 30wt. motor oil on all my runner blades.
2. I take the battens out of my sails and make sure I store them on a flat surface.
3. I check the mast, plank, and boom for any problems and fix them now!! rather then
waiting for first snow next fall.
4. I store my plank on a flat surface and put a spacer under the center of the crown
so it doesn't flatten out over the summer. One year I had a plank loose 1/4" of

Maybe we can get the tech committee to rule on using thes bottle rockets when there is no wind or possibly allow each skipper one to be used at his discretion during a regatta??
This Guy Is nuts??
Check out this video
http://jet-man.com/playervideo.swf?video=jetman2007.flv

See ya next year
Dn1313