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I noticed the a reference to this Regatta in the margin of the 4LIYC site. Any date? What classes of Skeeters will race? Do we get to race JD again?

Sharpen your runners!!! Only 30 days until the The Great Western Challenge Regatta December 6 - 8, 2013

Best Ice in Minnesota, USA.

More details as we get closer to the event date.

I'm sure this will be on everyone's Christmas list this year. :)
You know you want one.

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/for/4086420569.html

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Mark “The Doctor” Christensen (DN 4824) took top honors at the 2013 ILYA MC Championship Regatta. The seven race event was hosted by the Okoboji Yacht Club in Milford, Iowa, on August 14-17, 2013.

The Doctor, sailing MC 1969, was a threat to win right from the start when he won race #1. He then sailed consistently fast the rest of the regatta to best the 43 boat fleet.

Other notables sailing the event included Jim Gluek (DN 4257) who finished third.

Congratulations to the Doctor on an impressive soft water victory!

...and, Think Ice!

Northwest Ice Yacht Club
100 year Anniversary Regatta
March 15-18, 2013
Green Lake, Wisconsin

John Dennis :: E Skeeter
Jim McDonagh :: DN
Mike Derusha :: Renegade
Mike Peters :: Stern Steerer

Four different races sailed on Sunday, the last day of the regatta on the same course. There was more wind in the morning then afternoon, and the order was, Renegade, DN, Skeeter, Stern Steerers.

Karol Jablonski aka "King Karol" racing P-36 won the 2013 European Championships sailed on Siemianówka lake on the Polish / Ukrainian border. Jablonski, the reigning champion, won 4 of the six races. Tomas Zakrewski P-55 was 2nd and Peter Hamrak M-53 (Hungry) finished 3rd.
Full results at http://www.eissegeln.de/docs/pdf/Euro2013-4DayStanding.pdf

Get your butt, er, boat to Green Lake, Wisc. The regatta starts Friday, March 15, 2013, at 10am. Expect the DN class to start first.

Keep checking the 4LIYC website @ http://www.iceboat.org for updates about the Northwest Ice Yacht Association Annual Regatta. At present, there is no sailable ice but, because it is so late in the season, the regatta will be called on every week with the hope of ice conditions improving enough to hold the regatta.
Think Ice!

Central Lakes Rear Commodore Kent Baker reoprts the Central Lakes Regional Championship Regatta tentatively scheduled for February 23-24, 2013 has been POSTPONED .

See the DN bulliten board @ http://dnamerica.org/forum for more information.

The Nite National 2013 Championship Regatta has been called ON for Green Lake, WI., for the weekend of Feb 16 & 17, 2013. See the 4LIYC web site @ http://www.iceboat.org for more details along with the Notice of Race (NOR), Sailing Instructions and Registration form.

Just cold, very cold.

I didn't do so well. I was cold and wet!

But my cool Drift HD Ghost performed great all week. Peter Crawford of Penalty Box Productions told me it was the bomb. It was freezing cold with ice pellets, rain, slush, and mounted on the runner blank and didn't miss a beat. The battery lasted all day, even when it was 4 degrees F. amazing! I used the wrist remote control and with the colored LCD it worked really good. I recommend the Drift HD Ghost. It worked good in extreme winter conditions.

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John "JD" Dennis sailing us4691 totally dominated the 2013 North American Championships with three bullets!!!
The three race regatta was sailed in light air on snow coved Lake Pepin in Lake City, MN.

This is JD's second victory at the North American Championship regatta. His first victory came in 2004 at Sandusky Ohio. JD is also the only Minnesota sailor ever to win the NA's.

CONGRATULATIONS JD!!!!

Gold fleet
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Hi folks,
I'm hoping to stir up some interest for anyone who has a boat they can put on a trailer... And wants to come sailing on Lake of the Woods, 2hrs north of the boarder. We have a long standing regatta that traditionally has had 40 plus Minnesotan boats participating, but lately those numbers have dwindled down to less than 10. Here's a bit of info about the regatta, which has both highly competitive racing divisions, and an open cruising division for those wanting to take it a bit easy... My first regatta I was only 4 months old!

Link to WCCO's written article and video: http://goo.gl/VFg3B.

This is the first time in its 40 years that the DN Iceboating World Championship has ever come to Minnesota. At this championship people will race for the Gold Cup and then for the North American Championship.

“We have over 100 competitors from 9 countries,” the DN Class Secretary, Jim McDonagh, said. “We’ll be racing till we get 7 races in, in each fleet.”

Regatta complete. Polish sailors take first and second. J.D is third. Ron Sherry fourth. The Doctor is 10th.