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DN World and North American Championships Hotline: 1-248-988-0851

Report from the World Commodore, John Harper...

There are Two Sites being considered as primary sites, they are:

Maumee Bay, Toledo OH

and

Green Lake, Wisconsin

Other Sites in all the regions are being evaluated but were not Suitable as of Sunday.

There is a snow event developing which may impact the region later Monday and Tuesday, the path of this event will influence the final site selection.

PLEASE CONTINUE CHECKING ICE IN YOUR AREA AND INFORM YOUR REGIONAL REAR COMMODORE.

Our party/regatta is on for the weekend of the 17th and 18th of February. Launching will be mostly from our house, 3rd street or White Birch Lodge (all within walking distance of each other) we already have boats arriving a week early, by Monday there should be over a dozen boats with 6 days still before the party starts (doesn't include the local club sailing out of White Birch). Everything is free. There will be door prizes, trophies for Jboat and sportsman racing and food.
As of this morning we have 4-6" of hard ice. 90% clear with the other 10% being up to 1/2" deep of light fluffy stuff. The temps are low enough this week (single digits and below zero) to build alot more ice before the party. We already have trailers on the ice at our house and White Birch lodge.

World Commodore John Harper left the following message on The IDNIYRA World Championship Phone Hotline Report:

6 possible sites currently under evaluation for the DN World Championships.

East: 2 on Lake Champlain.

Central: Anchor Bay, Lake St. Clair, Detroit, MI Lake St Clair Webcam and Maumee Bay, Toledo OH Maumee Bay Webcam (a relatively short in iceboat regatta terms, 650 - 700 mile drive from Minnesota)

In the West, two fresh frozen lakes; Geneva Geneva Webcam and Green Lake in WI

2007 Eastern Regional DN Championship is ON for Feb 3 and 4
Site: Lake Winnipesaukee, NH

Launch Site: Ellacoya State Park off Rt 11 near the town of Gilford (west side of the lake near the Broads and Rattlesnake Island)

Directions: Rt 93 to exit 20, follow Rt 3 east to Laconia and then pickup Rt 11 to Gilford and to Ellacoya State Park.

Race Info: Registration starting at 8:30am at the launch site

Skippers meeting at 10:30am at the starting line and first race immediately following the meeting. IDNIYRA rules apply.

See Notice of Race on IDNIYRA website for more detail.

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From: Davenport, JohnP
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 3:53 PM
To:
Subject: RE: What a forecast!

Postponed! Zoll just called.

Regatta NWS Forecast

Good Call

4695

INDIAN LAKE WEBSITE HAS WEBCAM, WEATHER & ICE REPORT. Includes live video taken today!

it's good they got ice!

This would most likely be your last tuning/sparring opportunity before the worlds...

4695

Nothing on the web yet at the DN America Forum, but the hotline (248-988-0851) says it's ON.

Cheers,

Geoff S.

From Iceboat.org:

4LIYC Ice Opti Skipper, Sheridan Hearn (US-18), age 12, will be representing the United States and the 4LIYC in the DN/Opti World Junior Championships to be held next week on Lake Rekyvos in Latvia. This is truly a historic event for US iceboating, as Sheridan will be the first US Junior to ever participate in the Junior-only World Championships. (And her Dad thinks it's pretty cool that this first participant is, in fact, a girl). The event already has 110 pre-registrants from countries all over Europe. ...

The Aussie Iceboaters said they'd be doing something celebrating the foundation of the "prison continent", Australia Day.

As such, in typical iceboat fassion, Kangaroo Style, the initial Australia Day DN Regatta will be held today at Northcoast Restaurant, Wayzata,MN starting at 4:00 pm local time...

Note; this event will be confined to talking about sailing.

As always... sailors of all abilities

4695

January 24, 2007
Northwest Ice Yacht Association Regatta Called OFF
(Too much snow.)
Rescheduled for February 2-4, 2007
Check back on Sunday, January 29, 2007 for more information.

http://www.iceboat.org/

Tip of the helmet to Julie Jankowski and Stephanie Powell, Maclean and Jake for their help in getting all this racing off during the western regionals.

thanks

it's appreciated

4695

Here's a link to the 2007 Western Regional Results
Gull Lake, Mn
Jan 6th & 7th

http://iceboating.net/2007WesternResults

The Minnesota Ice Sailing Association and our new Australian ice boating buddies are working on a special weekend to end January in Minnesota...

The bundy boats will show us all how it's done...kangaroo style

More later...

4695

I just posted 120 pictures that Mike Bares took at the regatta.

This is probably the nicest set of pictures of a western regionals regatta that we have ever had access to.

You can click on the 'view original' and save the picture in high res so you can print it out yourself.

It's really great of him to go up and take the pictures and then let everyone have access to them.

Sorry there's no prev-next-slideshow feature, but nothing's perfect.

think ice
us5214

OFFICIAL NOTICE: ON Rear Commodore Isabell's Post

2007 Western Regional Regatta

The regatta site for the 2007 DN Western Region Regatta is Gull Lake, Minnesota. Although it is a little further drive than previous regattas in our region, the ice and facilities available will make for another wonderful event. Check out the website for more information. Gull Lake is a vacation destination and offers us an unparallel regatta venue! I truly hope you will make the drive and participate.

See you soon!

Mark Isabell
Western Region Commodore

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